Propagación vegetativa in vitro de pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes H.B.K.)

Abstract

Clonal propagation of pejibaye palm (Bactris gasipaes H. B. K.) was obtained by calhis culturing from shoot apices of young filed-grown plantlets on a modified Murashige and Skoog medium. Callus was induced from cultured explants in a medium lvith 2, 4 Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 6 Benzilaminopurine or a naphthalene-acetic acid and Kinetin in the dark, Plantlets were obtained with a recultured callus in a medium devoid of hormones in the light.