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Nodal explants obtained from 10-year-old field-grown culms of Bambusa edulis produced multiple shoots on a Murashige-and-Skoog-based medium supplemented with 0.1 mg/l of thidiazuron (TDZ). Hundreds of regenerated shoots rooted well on a medium supplemented with 0.01 mg/l TDZ and 0.5 mg/l 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and were successfully transferred to soil for field trials. Albinism occurred at the rate of about 30% among the regenerated shoots, and isolated albino shoots also proliferated on the medium containing TDZ. Some of the green and albino shoots also flowered on the medium containing TDZ. A potted plant also flowered and survived after flowering.
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Received: 20 August 1997 / Revision received: 12 December 1997 / Accepted: 12 January 1998
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Lin, CS., Chang, WC. Micropropagation of Bambusa edulis through nodal explants of field-grown culms and flowering of regenerated plantlets. Plant Cell Reports 17, 617–620 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002990050453
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002990050453