Protocol

Culturing Meristematic Tissue and Node Cuttings from Yams (Dioscorea)

  1. R. Geeta4,5
  1. 1 African Agricultural Technology Foundation, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
  2. 2 AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, Regional Center for Africa, Duluti, Arusha, Tanzania
  3. 3 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
  4. 4 Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
  1. ↵5Corresponding author (geeta{at}life.bio.sunysb.edu).

INTRODUCTION

This protocol describes how to produce whole yam (Dioscorea) plantlets in vitro through yam meristem culture and from yam node cuttings.

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  1. doi:10.1101/pdb.prot5325 Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009: pdb.prot5325-
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