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In vitro Growth Pattern of Moss Drummondia stricta (Mitt.) Müll. Hal. (Orthotrichaceae) in Different Hormonal Concentrations

Vishwa J. Singh, Dayanidhi Gupta, Vinay Sahu and Ashish K. Asthana

Abstract

The present work was undertaken to study the growth pattern of Drummondia stricta (Mitt.) Müll. Hal. in six different culture media with a combination of auxin and cytokinins, using spores as explants in aseptic cultures. In Drummondia, there is a tendency of multicellular spore formation and spore germination is precocious and endosporic. It has been observed that plant growth was the most satisfactory in the ½ Knop’s + 0.1 mg/L IAA + 0.1 mg/L Kinetin followed by ½ Knop’s, 0.1 mg/L IAA + 0.1 mg/L BAP. However, no growth was observed in case of ½ KNOP’s and Hoagland media.

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