Effect of Auxins on Adventitious Root Development from Single Node Cuttings of Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze and Associated Biochemical Changes |
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Authors: | Gyana Ranjan Rout |
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Institution: | (1) Plant Biotechnology Division, Regional Plant Resource Centre, Bhubaneswar, 751 015, Orissa, India |
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Abstract: | An attempt was made to induce rooting from single node cuttings of Camellia sinensis var. TV-20 under controlled conditions and study its biochemical changes during rooting. The nodal cuttings were pretreated
with different concentrations of IAA, NAA and IBA and kept in a growth chamber (25 ±2 °C, 16 h photoperiod (55 μ mol m−2 s−1) with cool, white fluorescent lamps and 65% relative humidity) for 12 h. Among the three auxins used for pretreatment, IBA
showed more positive response on rooting as compared to IAA and NAA within 2 weeks of transfer to potting medium. Among four
concentrations of IBA tested, 75 ppm gave maximum percentage of rooting, number of roots and root length. Therefore, IBA was
used further in experiments for biochemical investigation. The adventitious rooting was obtained in three distinct phases
i.e. induction (0–12 days), initiation (12–14 days) and expression (14–18 days). IAA-oxidase activity of IBA-treated cuttings
increased slightly as compared to control. The activity was found to decrease during induction and initiation phases and increase
during expression phase. The peroxidase activity in IBA-treated cuttings increased up to initiation phase and declined at
the expression phase. Polyphenoloxidase activity increased both in IBA-treated and control cuttings during induction and initiation
phase but declined slowly during expression phase. Total phenolic content was higher in IBA-treated cuttings, particularly
in initiation and expression phases and it also correlated with peroxidase activity. Phenolics might be playing key role for
induction of adventitious rooting, and phenolic compounds can be used as rooting enhancer in tea plant. |
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Keywords: | Auxins Camellia sinensis Enzyme activity Nodal cutting Propagation |
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