This current study was conducted on gardenia plant (Gardenia
jasminoides.L.) cv. ellis. which was micropropagated in vitro to study the effect
of some plant growth regulators on multiplication and rooting, for the aim of
developing a complete in v
itro microprpagation system of the studied cv.
Results demonstrated that, the best medium for in vitro micropropagation of
the studied cv. was MS medium supplemented with 1 mg/L BA + 0.1 mg/L IBA
with a multiplication rate of 5.33 new shoots, with average shoot height of 4.73
cm, and average leaf number of 4.36. These shoots were then transferred to a
rooting media containing a half-strength of the multiplication basal media with
NAA at a concentration of 1mg/L which resulted in highest rooting efficiency of
97% with average root number of 9.67, and average root length of 5.35 cm, and
average stem length of 9.80 cm, and average leaf number of 5.07. Increasing
NAA concentration in rooting media to 1.5 mg/L resulted in increasing root
length average to 6.28 cm with significant difference in comparison to the
previous treatment. Rooted Plantlets were acclimatized gradually in a growth
room conditions to ex vitro conditions with 85 % efficiency.
The research was carried out during 2014 and 2015 agricutural
season ,To study the effect of spraying cytokinin regulator on
vigitative and fruiting charachterstics cotton plant.
