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Journal of Biotechnology & Bioresearch

Selection of Suitable Potting Mix for Hardening of Tissue Cultured Sugarcane Plantlets in Greenhouse

  • Open or CloseShubhangi Salokhe S*

    Professor in Agribusiness, Department of Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Symbiosis International University, India

    *Corresponding author:Shubhangi Salokhe S, Professor in Agribusiness, Department of Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Symbiosis International University, India

Submission: January 03, 2023; Published: January 20, 2023

Abstract

Tissue Culture is one of the best techniques to produce disease-free, true-to-type and vigorous plants of sugarcane which can be used as seed cane. Transfer of in vitro sugarcane plantlets from their sterile culture vessels to the soil requires a careful and stepwise procedure and suitable potting mixes because this is one of the important criteria for the survival of tissue-cultured plantlets. The present study was undertaken using tissue-cultured plantlets of sugarcane variety ‘Co 86032’ to develop a procedure for hardening of tissue-cultured sugarcane plantlets. The treatment FU2 (F1 + 0.5% solution of urea spraying two times i.e., at 15 days and 30 days after transplanting @200ml solution each time on 160 plantlets) was found suitable treatment (potting mix) for survival of tissue cultured sugarcane plantlets in green house.

Keywords:Fertilizers; Growth Mediums; Nutrients; Plantlets; Survival

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