In vitro propagation of ficus lyrata

الملخص EN

Survival of hells lvratu shoot tips was relatively high (~2 .22 %) when they were sterilized by ethanol a nd calcium hypochlorite and cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal medium supplemented with (rug per liter) 0.02 Indolebutyric acid (IRA) .

0.1 kinetin and 1.0 gibberellic acid (GA,) .

Proliferation rate varied - according to cytokinin type and concernration - from 1.25 to 6.33 shoot/explant (overall average 3.62 shoo t/ explant) .

Proliferation occurred on MS medium supplemented with 0.5.1 .0 and 2.0 mg/L of either of kinetin or henzylaminopurine (BA) .

Rooting was easily (100 %) obtained on MS medium supplemented with 0.5 mg/L IBA.

Number of leaves.

root" and average length of plantlcts and roots were also recorded.