Department of Biology, Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Short Communication
In vitro Propagation Protocol Development for Oxytenanthera abyssinica A. Rich. Munro
Author(s): Adugnaw Admas*, Melaku Admassie, Tesaka Misgie, Berhane Kidane and Yigardu Mulatu
Oxytenanthera abyssinica A. Rich. Munro has various economic and ecological importances in Ethiopia. Nowadays, the need for planting the species across the wider landscape, as plantation forest, is increasing. However, conventional propagation methods of O. abyssinica are found generally to be inefficient because they have low multiplication rate, are time consuming, labor intensive and too costly. Accordingly, tissue culture protocol developed at Holeta biotechnology lab by the collaboration of the Forest Directorate of EIAR and Holeta biotechnology laboratory in 2017 for the species was later optimized at Bahir Dar-ORDA tissue culture laboratory in 2020 and 2021 so as to produce sufficient number of lowland bamboo seedling through seed culture. Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium augmented with 6-Benzylaminopurine (BAP) was used for shoot initiation and multiplication... View More»
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