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A protocol based on shoot cultures of 1-mo.-old seedlings was developed for rapid asexual multiplication of eucommia, the source of an antihypertensive medicinal. The explant is an excised shoot tip, 3–5 mm tall. MS basal medium supplemented with 1 mg/liter BA is employed to establish primary cultures and subsequently multiply shoots. Shoots are subculturable on the same medium and can be increased at a rate of 7.5 new shoots per 2-shoot sector every 3 wk. Rooting is achieved in a Gelrite medium with the MS salts reduced to 1/3 strength and the BA replaced by 0.1 mg/liter NAA. The method is not directly applicable to mature trees. Applicability will require explants from rejuvenated sources, possibly attainable by the method of repeated grafting of shoot apices onto juvenile rootstocks, repeated subculturing of shoots, or culturing shoot apical meristems.
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Chen, LJ., Hu, TW. & Huang, LC. A protocol toward multiplication of the medicinal tree,Eucommia ulmoides oliver. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Plant 31, 193–198 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02632020
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