CULTURE MEDIUM SUPPORT CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF KONJAK GLUCOMANNAN AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING THE SAME

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve problems that a conventional culture medium support consisting essentially of agar or gellan gum inhibits growth, propagation and differentiation according to the kind of a cultured product. PSOLUTION: It is found that konjak glucomannan which has not hitherto been utilized as the culture medium support produces no inhibitory effects on the growth, etc., of the cultured product. Thereby, the culture medium support consisting essentially of the konjak glucomannan is developed. A wider range of plants, microorganisms or plant tissues can be cultured by using the new culture medium support. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT