The Evaluation of Sexual and Vegetative Propagation of Medicinal Plant Christia vespertilionis (Butterfly Wing Plant)
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- 10.2991/aer.k.200325.040How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Christia vespertilionis, sexual and vegetative propagation, in vitro
- Abstract
Christia vespertilionis also known as butterfly wing plant is an ornamental and valuable medicinal plant grown in tropical and subtropical regions. Despite the importance, not much attention has been given to study economical propagation methods of C. vespertilionis. This work aims to evaluate between sexual (seeds) and vegetative (cuttings and in vitro) propagation techniques in terms of their viability and growth. Pretreatment of seeds showed that wet paper towel was observed induced a higher percentage of germination rate as compared to other treatments. A comparison between two types of cuttings indicated semi hardwood part propagated better than the softwood part. In the present study, in vitro shoot proliferation was obtained by culturing nodal node segments in Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 2.0 mg/L of 6-Benzyl amino purine (BAP). However, no root development was observed when well-developed shoots were transferred on rooting medium supplemented with various concentrations of Indolebutyric acid (IBA). We conclude that C. vespertilionis appear to propagate easily using seeds and semi-woody cuttings. Further investigation of in vitro propagation could potentially be used for future conservation and sustainable production of C. vespertilionis.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Ramisah Mohd Shah AU - Nur Affida Abd. Rahman AU - Iffah Hazirah Mohd Nawi AU - Nor Idzwana Mohd Idris AU - Rudiyanto AU - Norhidayah Che Soh PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/30 TI - The Evaluation of Sexual and Vegetative Propagation of Medicinal Plant Christia vespertilionis (Butterfly Wing Plant) BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANRes 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 210 EP - 212 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.200325.040 DO - 10.2991/aer.k.200325.040 ID - Shah2020 ER -