TY - JOUR AU - KŐSZEGHI, Szidónia AU - BERECZKI, Csaba AU - BALOG, Adalbert AU - BENEDEK, Klára PY - 2014/12/08 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Comparing the Effects of Benzyladenine and meta-Topolin on Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum) Micropropagation JF - Notulae Scientia Biologicae JA - Not Sci Biol VL - 6 IS - 4 SE - Research articles DO - 10.15835/nsb649464 UR - https://www.notulaebiologicae.ro/index.php/nsb/article/view/9464 SP - 422-427 AB - <p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Micropropagation of aromatic plants reveals an effective way of obtaining high volume, virus-free plant material of uniform quality. The application of <em>meta</em>-Topolin (<em>m</em>T) (N<sup>6</sup>-(2-hydroxybenzyl) adenine-9-riboside) and aromatic cytokinin as Benzyladenine (BAP) in the micro propagation of sweet basil (<em>Ocimum basilicum </em>L.) was tested for the first time and plant growth parameters assessed to determine the optimum level of these cytokinins. Additionally, the rate of root-growth inhibition due to these two cytokinins was also assessed. Our results show that 1 mg/l (4.43 </span><span lang="EN-GB">m</span><span lang="EN-GB">M) BAP and 0.5 mg/l (2.07 </span><span lang="EN-GB">m</span><span lang="EN-GB">M)<em>m</em>T produced the most favourable effects on new shoot developments. <em>Meta</em>-Topolin was shown to increase the quality of the plants and in comparison with BAP fewer distortions were observed. No significant differences in root-growth inhibition between the <em>m</em>T and BAP were detected.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> ER -