Novel tissue culturetechniques for propagationof elite coconut cultivars

摘要

Coconut is grown widely across 17 states and 3 union territories in India. Coconut cultivation is facing various problems such as diseases, pests and senility of existing palms. Predominantly cross-fertilized nature of coconut results in enormous variability in the seedling progenies, leading to dearth of quality planting materials. Though India is the first country to evolve a commercial hybrid in coconut, the current production of quality planting materials meets only 20 percent of the annual requirement. The demand in quality seedlings has drastically increased and to meet this gap, novel strategies have to be taken up to produce quality planting materials.