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  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

High frequency plant regeneration from callus cultures of two finger millet (Eleusine coracana) cultivars

  • Author:
  • A. Maruthi Rao1, I. Sampath Kumar1, N. Jalaja3, D. Madhavi3, P. Sri Laxmi3, P. Nataraj Sekhar3, P. S. Reddy3, Rathnagiri Polavarapu2, P. B. Kavi Kishor3
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 85 to 89

1Department of Botany, Telangana University, Nizamabad, 503 002, Andhra Pradesh, India

2Genomix Molecular Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd., Balanagar, Hyderabad, 500 072, Andhra Pradesh, India

3Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 500 007, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract

Genotypic differences for callus induction, per cent frequency of plantlet regeneration and mean number of plants formed per 200 mg callus were observed in finger millet (Eleusine coracana). BAP was better, but kinetin is effective in finger millet for plant regeneration. High frequency plant regeneration was noticed upto 165 to 180 days which would pave the way for genetic transformation of finger millet.

Keywords

Callus cultures, plant regeneration, finger millet (Eleusine coracana)