National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Aloe vera is one of the oldest known medicinal plant gifted by nature which is often called as ‘Miracle plant’ for its versatile properties. It has valuable medicinal benefits and is commercially used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food industries as nutraceuticals. In nature, Aloe vera is vegetatively propagated through suckers or lateral shoots which is a slow, expensive and low income practice. Sexual reproduction by seeds is also inefficient due to the presence of male sterility. Thus regeneration of Aloe vera in nature is too slow and insufficient to meet the industrial demand. Therefore, there is a need to develop a suitable and alternative method of in vitro propagation for rapid plant production of Aloe vera. However, source of explants, size, age, genotype, media composition, culture conditions and exudation of phenolic compound from explants and media discoloration greatly affect shoot regeneration from different genotypes of the same species. The technique of tissue and organ culture is used for rapid multiplication of plants and one of the major applications of tissue culture is micropropagation.
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