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<Journal>
<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 4 Issue 4</issue_number>
<issue_period>2013 (October - December)</issue_period>
<title>IN VITRO PROPAGATION OF COSTUS PICTUS (D.DON.) </title>
<abstract> lessThan i greaterThan Costus pictus lessThan /i greaterThan  a valuable medicinally important 'insulin plant' cultivated in garden as an ornamental belongs to the family Costaceae. During present investigation Micropropagation studies in Costus have been tried using different growth hormones viz. BAP, KIN, IBA, IAA, and NAA. Nodal part of stem was tried and proven suitable for Micropropagation as compare to rhizome, rhizomatic eye, and apical shoot. Suitable combinations of growth regulators recorded for Micropropagation were 2.7 mg/L BAP, 0.2 mg/L IAA from the nodal region. Hence present findings provide the standard  lessThan i greaterThan in vitro lessThan /i greaterThan  protocol for  lessThan i greaterThan Costus pictus lessThan /i greaterThan . </abstract>
<authors>SANJAY BIRADAR, PALLAVI PRASAD AND NARAYAN PANDHURE</authors>
<keywords>Costus pictus, in vitro propagation, nodal explant. </keywords>
<pages>918-922</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
