COST REDUCTION IN TISSUE CULTURE I – SAVING OF WATER AND POWER

Document Type : Research articles.

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Dept. of Ornamental Plant Researches and Landscape Design, Horticulture Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt.

Abstract

Using tap water in preparing media instead of distilled water
gave significant higher number of shoots and leaves, in addition to an
insignificant increase in shoot fresh weight, shoot length and total
chlorophyll content of both Gerbera and Lilium explants at
multiplication stage.
At the rooting stage, in both plants the number of leaves and
root length were higher in plantlets when using tap water than when
using distilled water in media preparation. However, the effect was
statistically significant on root length in case of Gerbera only, and on
leaf number in case of Lilium only. Insignificant increments in
plantlet fresh weight, shoot length, root fresh weight, root number
and chlorophyll content of Gerbera and Lilium plantlets were found
when using tap water than distilled water.
Using tap water instead of distilled water in the approximately
30 tissue culture labs in Egypt may save yearly an amount of 13635
m
3 of tap water intended originally for human potable purposes,
1350000 kilowatt of electric power and L.E. 822476 as a total cost,
taking into consideration that these figures may change from lab to
lab, from time to time and from a country to the other. Details of
these figures are mentioned in the economical study.

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Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development
Volume 19, Issue 1
January 2005
Pages 71-80

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