Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 31(1): 1-12, 2021 (June)

In vitro Propagation of Two Tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium (L.) Schott) Cultivars from Shoot Tip Explants

Eyasu Wada and Tileye Feyissa

Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Wolaita Sodo University, P.O.Box 138, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia

Key words: Explant, Micropropagation, Shoot tip, Tannia

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This study was carried out to develop anin vitro propagation protocol for two tannia(Xanthosoma sagittifolium (L.) Schott)cultivars (greenand purple), using shoot tip explants.Shoots were best initiated on the MS supplemented with 2.0 mg/l BAP. The highest number of shoot per explant (green tannia:4.56

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