title: In vitro propagation of two tuberous medicinal plants: Holostemma ada-kodien and Ipomoea mauritiana.
abstract: Medicinal plants are sources of important therapeutic aid for healing human diseases. The depletion of the wild resources has prompted conservation, propagation, and enhancement of resources for medicinal plants. Micropropagation offers an alternate method to propagate and improve medicinal plants through selection of high-yield lines and their efficient cloning. This chapter describes cost effective and efficient protocols that have been successfully applied for the micropropagation and large-scale production of quality planting material in two important tuberous medicinal plants viz., Holostemma ada-kodien Schult. and Ipomoea mauritiana Jacq.
authors.affiliation: Crop Improvement and Biotechnology Division, Centre for Medicinal Plants Research, Arya Vaidya Sala, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: S Pillai
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Geetha
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Raghu
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Satheesh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: Indira
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Balachandran
mesh_terms: D027741:Ipomoea / Q000254:growth & development*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000254:growth & development*; D013045:Species Specificity