Evaluation of Dendrocalamus asper in different types of media with 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) hormone

Abstract

Dendrocalamus asper (D. asper), known as giant bamboo, have many advantages with higher economic value (Schroder, 2010). However, D. asper took several years for regeneration. Based on the reported research, full strength Murashige and Skoog (MS) media were the most frequently used for plant tissue culture and there were very limited studies on the use Vacin and Went (VW) media in D. asper tissue culture. Therefore, this study was intended to overcome the limitation by investigating the height of D. asper, the numbers of leaves and shoots formation in different types of basal media with the presences of BAP hormone.