Efficient In Vitro Propagation by Ex Vitro Rooting Methods of Artemisia absinthium L., an Ethnobotanically Important Plant
Table 1
Effect of cytokinins (BAP and Kn) concentration on bud breaking from nodal explants of A. absinthium.
Plant growth regulators (mg/L)
Bud breaking response (%)
Number of shoots/explants (mean ± SD)
Shoot length (cm) (mean ± SD)
Kn
BAP
0
—
0
0.0 ± 0.00
0.00 ± 0.00
0.25
—
68
2.9 ± 1.03
1.43 ± 1.38
0.5
—
53
2.3 ± 0.28
1.17 ± 0.96
1.0
—
50
2.0 ± 0.46
1.24 ± 0.52
1.5
—
46
1.5 ± 0.21
1.30 ± 0.86
—
0.25
72
3.2 ± 0.94
2.26 ± 0.73
—
0.5
89
4.5 ± 0.22
2.54 ± 0.67
—
1.0
82
4.0 ± 0.54
1.37 ± 0.26
—
1.5
78
3.7 ± 0.82
1.02 ± 0.39
0.25
0.25
84
5.3 ± 0.76
2.95 ± 0.64
0.25
0.5
100
6.0 ± 0.52
3.25 ± 0.42
0.25
1.0
93
5.0 ± 0.36
2.58 ± 0.26
0.25
1.5
86
4.6 ± 0.29
2.36 ± 0.44
Note: each value represents the mean ± SD of ten replicates. Mean values ± SD followed by the same superscripts within columns are not significantly different at level by Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT).
