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Lagerstroemia - In-Vitro Clonal Propagation of from Mature Trees By John Paily Lagerstroemia is woody tree valued for its timber. It is reported to have use in ship building, making of railway sleepers, bridges and furniture. It extensively used in landscaping and road side tree because of it beautiful flowers. Normally tissue culture experiments are attempted with seed derived explants because its juvenile state is readily amenable for differentiation. Here the work was taken up with explants taken from mature and flowering tree. Here axillary buds were used for culturing. Multiple shoots were induced in culture and were separated, rooted independently and transferred to soil. See photos
This work is the only published work of the author. Paily J & D'souza L (1986) In vitro clonal propagation of Lagerstroemia flos-reginae Retz. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 6:41-45 The plant today is Mature and Flowering Normally Further Detail you are welcome Initially it along with cashew formed my thesis work. But it was deleted from thesis and in its place coconut was introduced. The work with cashew that was initiated by the author 1982 and the promising results led to sanctioning of huge funds to the lab from the Government of India also is published in international journals from the lab. However it does not carry any credence to me.
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