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being developed. Tissue culture methods using apices of nursery and orchard
trees of Carica papaya cv. Sunrise Solo were evaluated. The explants were
established in a modified Murashige and Tucker (1969) basal medium with
half-strength inorganic salts, 0.5mgl-1 6-benzylaminopurine (BA) and 0.2mgl-1
naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA). Established explants were transferred to a
proliferation medium consisting of Murashige and Tucker (1969) basal
medium, 0.5mgl-1 BA and 0.1mgl-1 NAA, which caused extensive
multiplication of shoots. Rooting was induced at a higher frequency by
subculturing plantlets onto media with indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) than with
NAA.
Plant Tissue Culture Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411 008, India
2. Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is an important fruit species and is widely cultivated
in many tropical and subtropical countries. The conventional methods of
maintaining papaya germplasm under nursery and orchard conditions require
extensive space and labor. It is very difficult to conserve papaya germplasm by
conventional methods. In this study shoot tips from papaya were multiplied in
vitro and cryopreserved by vitrification. Micropropagation was improved by
testing growth regulator concentrations. Shoots grown on MS medium with 0.5
mg/L BA, 0.1 mg/L NAA and 1.0 mg/L GA3 were significantly better than on other
treatments. Optimized vitrification procedures indicated that for papaya the best
protocol was with shoot tips (2-3 mm) precultured for 3 days at 25CV on MS
medium with 5% DMSO and 5% sucrose. Shoot tips (1.5~2.5 mm) were
pretreated in 60% PVS2 for 50 min at room temperature, then they were
completely dehydrated with 100% PVS2 for 30 min at 0C. After changing the
solution with fresh PVS2 the materials were plunged directly into liquid nitrogen
and stored for at least 24 hours. Shoot tips were rapidly warmed in a 40Cwater
bath, and washed twice with 1.2 M sucrose solution and transferred to the
optimized medium. Shoot tip regrowth was 52.6%. The shoots developed
normally, rooted and survived transplantation.
Better survival of plantlets was obtained in the potting mix, sand: soil: cowdung
(1:1:1 v/v).
Explants from plantlets viz., stem segments (B5 medium with NAA 10 m and K
5 m), root (B5 medium containing NAA and K each at 10 m), petiole and leaf
segments (MS medium with NAA 0.5 m and BAP 2.5 m) could give rise to
callus in medium indicated in brackets.
The explant were axillary buds of three years old field plants. Sterilization was
carried out by Rifampicin and NaOC1 solution. Initiation media was modified MS.
Multiplication media was MS supplemented with 0.5 ppm BA and 0.1 ppm NAA.
Rooting was carried out by immersing the explants in 1 ppm IBA for 1218 hours
and then transfer to liquid MS basal medium. Internal bacterial contamination
was a serious obstacle.