1Undergraduate Student, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Saveetha Dental College, SIMATS, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
3Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Dental College, SIMATS, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
*Corresponding author Dr. Lakshmi Thangavelu, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India, Email: Lakshmi@saveetha.com
Online published on 27 March, 2020.
To investigate seed germination assay of hemidesmus indicus ethanolic root extract by an invitro study. It is a slender, laticiferous, twining, sometimes prostrate or semi-erect shrub. Roots are woody and aromatic. The stem is numerous, slender, terete, thickened at the nodes. The leaves are opposite, short-petioled, very variable, elliptic-oblong to linear-lanceolate. The flowers are greenish outside, purplish inside, crowded in sub-sessile axillary cyme. Seed germination study is an novel cost effective method in tissue culture techniques.
Seed Germination, Hemidismus Indicus, Ethanolic root, Novel technique
