Morphology and ontogeny of directly differentiating shoot buds and somatic embryos in Santalum album L.

Santalum album L.is a commercially important tree that yields essential oil of high medicinal value.Regeneration research through organogenesis and embryogenesis has been documented but no report depicts comparative ontogeny of directly differentiating shoot buds(SB)and somatic embryos(SE).In the present study aseptic seedling derived hypocotyl segments(HC)and hypocotyl+root junction(HC+R)were used to induce SBs and SEs,respectively.Ontogenic differences between the structures were confirmed using scanning electron microscopy and histological analysis.MS medium containing 6-benzyladenine or BA(2.5μM)produced highest number of direct SB,while MS+BA(7.5μM)proved suitable for higher frequency of SE differentiation.The differentiating structures attained growth when transferred to MS medium containing a combination of BA and anaphthalene acetic acid or silver nitrate(AgNO3).A combination of indole-3-butyric acid and silver nitrate(AgNO3)in half-strength woody plant medium and lesser osmotic concentration(2%sucrose),induced rhizogenesis.

Alginate encapsulation in Glycyrrhiza glabra L.with phyto-chemical profiling of root extracts of in vitro converted plants using GC-MS analysis

Objective: To investigate the conversion potential of alginate encapsulated nodes of Glycyrrhiza glabra with phyto-chemical evaluation of root extract of field transferred plants.Methods: The excised axenic nodal segments were encapsulated in alginate matrix planted on Murashige and Skoog(1962) medium with different supplementation and formulations of PGRs. The two year old field transferred plants were evaluated for phytocompounds analysis using GC-MS technique.Results: Varied responses were observed during the study, maximum conversion95.83% ± 2.40% was obtained in these encapsulates when planted on MS medium containing 2.5 m M Kinetin and 0.5 m M a-Naphthalene acetic acid, which eventually developed into complete plantlets in a single step. Further, GC-MS analysis showed the presence of different phyto-compounds in the methanolic root extracts of in vitro converted plants. The results obtained revealed the presence of about 47 phyto-compounds along with various potential bioactive compounds useful for industrial and pharmaceutical purposes.Conclusions: This study investigates high frequency regeneration and conversion of Glycyrrhiza glabra in a single step in short time. Also, the in vitro raised plants are analysed for bioactive compounds after field transfer, which shows the presence of numerous compounds useful for commercial and pharmacological purposes.