October 2013

Micropropagation of the Indian Birthwort Arsitolochia indica L.

Aristolochia indica L. is a medicinal woody perennial climber plant of immense pharmaceutical value. The species is endangered with possible extinction due to its indiscriminate harvesting as raw material for pharmaceutical industry, to manufacture drugs against cholera, inflammation, biliousness, dry cough and snake bite. A rigorous attempt has been made for development of in vitro propagation...

Author(s): Syed Naseer Shah, Amjad M. Husaini and Fatima Shirin

October 2013

A quick bud breaking response of a surface model for rapid clonal propagation in Centella asiatica (L.)

Present investigation was planned to evaluate time period of bud breaking in Centella asiatica with different concentration of plant growth regulators, a medicinal herb distributed throughout the worldwide. For the study, concentrations were designed for response surface model describing bud breaking growth in optimum conditions. A combination of BAP (2 mg/L) + gibberellic acid (GA3, 0.5 mg/L) was...

Author(s): AK Bhandari, M Baunthiyal, VK Bisht, Narayan Singh and JS Negi