1Assistant Professor, PG and Research Department of Microbiology, Sengamala Thayaar Educational Trust Women¶s College, Sundarakkottai, Tamil Nadu, India, Email id: kannahiamf@gmail.com
2Student, Sengamala Thayaar Educational Trust Womens College, Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu, India, Email id: bhuvanastet@gmail.com
Online published on 10 April, 2019.
Banana is an important food crop and the second most important fruit crop. The planting materials obtained through conventional methods (suckers) do not meet the increasing demand for planting and they are of poor quality. Production of Banana is constrained by many biotic as well as abiotic factors. The production of disease free planting material of banana by meristem culture technique is an urgent need. Tissue culture is the approach which can solve these problems. Micro propagation of the crop is also faced with challenges which need to be addressed in order to improve its production. This review highlights the challenges encountered in tissue culture of banana and explores the in vitro propagation techniques by using shoot tip cultures of banana as the possibilities to overcome these problems. The relevant and recent reports have been included in this review.
BAP, in vitro, Media Composition, Meristem, Micro propagation
