“…When cultured on a Murashige and Skoog (1962;MS) basal medium without plant growth regulators (PGRs), D. draconis tTCLs remain green for up to 1 -2 weeks and then gradually become brown and die (Rangsayatorn 2009). Browning or blackening explants and calluses occurs as a result of phenolic secretions from the wounded cells, during sectioning tissue from shoot tips, leaves, or PLBs (Kaewubon et al 2015). The incidence of browning in the medium and explants on TCL cultures were frequently reported in several orchids such as D. fimbriatum, D. chrysotoxum, D. candidum, D. draconis, D. nobile, Cymbidium spp., and Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi (Roy and Banerjee 2003, Malabadi et al 2005, Teixeira da Silva et al 2006, Roy et al 2007, Zhao et al 2007, Rangsayatorn 2009, Vyas et al 2010, Rittirat et al 2012.…”