“…Plant tissues Plant tissues Plant tissues Plant tissues Table 1 shows a list of the plant species, mostly horticultural ones, and tissue culture-derived explants used in this study. The explants were rehydrated in sterile distilled water for 30 min, thereafter cultured onto artificial media [Murashige and Skoog (MS) 11 + NAA and kinetin each at 0.5 mg/l for items 1 and 16 (Table 1), White 12 for items 2 and 6-8, MS+NAA and kinetin each at 1.0 mg/l for items 3 and 4, MS + BA 1 mg/l for items 5 and 17, Vacin and Went (VW) 13 + 20% coconut water for items 9-14, and MS supplemented with BA, GA 3 and NAA at 1, 0.1 and 0.01 mg/l, respectively, for items 15, 18 and 19] kept at 28±1 o C under continuous light approximately at 13 µmol/m 2 / s for 15 days. The fresh onion outermost cell layer from its bulb scale (uncultured) was also used in this study.…”