In Vitro Protocols for Ornamental Climbers

Abstract

Since the time immemorial, plants and plant parts thereof have been used as medicinal sources to cure various ailments and diseases. Recent era witnessed a great loss of this natural wealth because of its excessive use and overexploitation. Thus, it is the need of an hour to take immediate and possible measures for conserving such a great wealth. With the advent of biotechnological approaches, new vitas and horizons were broadened in every sphere of research including plant biotechnology that boosted during the present century and played a vital role in conserving ornamental plants, thus maintaining the depleting natural wealth under laboratory conditions in a short span of time. In vitro studies of several important ornamental climbers have been carried out by different workers, viz., Gloriosa superba , Ceropegia spp . , Allamanda , Passifl ora spp., etc. The present chapter deals with the detailed account of successful protocols developed through in vitro propagation of such elite germplasms.