In vitro screening of germination capacity of seeds at some important vegetables genotypes preserved in seed banks

Abstract

Conservation of seeds in gene banks for long periods has the disadvantage of loss in germination capacity. Culture of seed or embryos in vitro is a method to overcome this limitation by forcing hormonal seed germination, resulting in direct production of plants. The experiments carried out in developing this paper targets to determine the optimum in vitro temperature and culture medium for the germination of seeds at different important genotypes of vegetables.