Influence of Plant Growth Regulators on Callusing Percentage of Terminalia arjuna (Roxb.) and Terminalia chebula (Retz.) Stem Cuttings

摘要

Gujarat is situated on the west coast of India. The state has the longest main land coastline in india with 1650 km. The intertidal zone is an important zone in marine ecology with several microorganisms endured in the intertidal area. Nowadays diversity assessment of specific group and territories are priority tasks (Bouchet et al., 2002). Molluscas are very adaptive and inhabit mostly in all habitats. Marine mollusc is one of the highly explored taxonomy groups in India. India has 3370 marine mollusc species are found (Venkatraman and Wafer, 2005; MoEF, 2014). Molluscas form important link between primary to tertiary level in ecological food chain and they are also utilized as edible source for costal population, ornamental trade and as fertilizers. Mollusc also provides essential biomedical component for various drugs. Squids, Oysters, Mussels, etc. are used as an edible food source. The edible oysters contain various essential vitamins such as vitamin A, B, D and other components such as Fat, Proteins, etc. are found (Jaiswarand Kulkarni, 2005; Santhiya etal., 2013).