“…Similar to results of our study, the principal role of cytokinins in in vitro organogenesis processes including shoot proliferation has been widely reported (Veraplakorn, 2016;Hosseinabadi et al, 2020;Kumar and Giridhar, 2020;Nithya and Kamalam, 2021;Farooq et al, 2022). In fact, cytokinins play a crucial role in stimulating cell division and synthesis of various macromolecules including RNA, proteins and enzymes and they are notably used in in vitro cultures to suppress apical dominance and promote axillary shoot proliferation (Gomes et al, 2010;Mohamad et al., 2022;Farooq et al, 2021;Fawzia et al, 2018;Raju and Divya, 2020). However, optimal rate of shoot proliferation largely depends on the concentration of cytokinins used and it has been well established that different types of cytokinins have varying efficiencies in inducing shoot multiplication, and their effectiveness is dose-dependent (Jun-jie et al, 2017;Bayraktar et al, 2020;Jagiełło-Kubiec et al, 2021).…”