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Proc. 98th <strong>India</strong>n Science Congress, Part II : Abstracts of Oral/Poster Presentation<br />

cultures grown in continuous light. Maximum phytosterol production was observed<br />

at pH 5. 6. In the light and dark grown cultures there existed a direct correlation<br />

between biomass and phytosterol production which was not the case in cultures<br />

grown at different pH.<br />

196. Establishment of an in vitro Grafting system for Rose<br />

Shubham Chakravarty 1 , Sankarshan Sen 1 and Siraj Datta<br />

AJC Bose Laboratory for Plant Biotechnology,<br />

School of Biotechnology and Life Sciences,<br />

Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia,<br />

West Bengal-721657<br />

Keywords : Micro propagation, Micro grafting, Rosa hybrida, Coir<br />

The major limitation in the cultivation of Rose is that, the elite cultivars are<br />

of significantly less vigor when grown on their own roots. On the other hand,<br />

when Rose is propagated by the traditional ex vitro budding or grafting techniques,<br />

disease-free shoot and root stocks, suitable for grafting, are not sufficiently<br />

available. Therefore, the key to propagate a large number of Rose plants<br />

of sufficient viability relies on the establishment of a suitable in vitro grafting<br />

system for Rose. In order to develop an efficient micro grafting protocol for<br />

Rose, various aspects of in vitro grafting in Rose were studied using four<br />

different varieties of Rose. First, the four types of Rose, which included three<br />

elite cultivars, Rosa hybrida cv Sanjith, Rosa hybrida cv Revolution X Bicolette,<br />

Rosa hybrida cv East-West and a suitable root stock, Rosa multiflora, were<br />

micro propagated to produce disease-free plants, suitable for grafting, in large<br />

numbers. Then each of the three elite cultivars were grafted in vitro onto the<br />

root stock and the parameters like shoot-root combination, scion and root stock<br />

age and length were studied to increase the efficiency of micro grafting. The<br />

survival of grafts was higher when Rosa hybrida cv Sanjith and Rosa hybrida<br />

cv East-West were grafted onto Rosa multiflora than when Rosa hybrida cv<br />

Revolution X Bicolette was grafted onto the same root stock. Scion size size of<br />

0. 6–1. 5 cm

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