Tissue culture

Tissue culture banana

•Pest and disease free at planting.

•Tissue culture vigour provides better growth

and better performance in the field.

•Available through out the year.

•Progenies are uniform and true-to-type.

•Uniform maturity and harvesting.

•Ratoon crop is a unique feature.

Mother plant

Sucker selected

Explant

Shooting

Multiple shooting

Rooting

Hardening

VIRUS

INDEXING

Multiple Choice

Recalcitrant seeds are:

• Easy to dry and store

• Includes seeds from tropical fruits

• Also known as orthodox seeds

• Germinates while on parent plant

Multiple Choice

Seed coat dormancy is:

• Detected by embryo excision

• Due to dead embryo

• Due to presence of ABA

• Overcome by cotyledon removal

Cultivation of TC banana

•2 ½ - 3 month old TC plants should be used for
planting.
•Prepare pits in advance.
•Apply FYM + Green manure @ 15-20 kg / pit and
mix with top soil.
•Apply 500g lime / pit in acidic soils.

TC 6 splits

Urea

Rajphos

Muriate of
Potash

1MAP

110

260

115

2MAP

110

115

3MAP

110

275

115

4MAP

110

115

5MAP

110

115

ABE

110

210

Compost 15 kg/Pit ,Lime 500g/pit
16;16;16 /17:17;17/119;19;19 @5g/litre
Shade 10 days

Nendran -Tissue culture

Nendran 6
splits

Urea

Mussourieph
os

Muriate of
potash

1MAP

90

350

100

2MAP

65

250

100

3MAP

65

00

100

4MAP

65

00

100

5MAP

65

00

100

ABE

65

Nendran suckers

Palayankodan 100:200:400 g

10 kg FYM

Urea

Rajphos

MOP

2MAP

108

277

334

4MAP

109

278

334

GrandNain, Red banana,Njalipoovan
180:180:360 NPK g/plant

Urea gram

Rajphos
gram

MOP gram

2MAP

195

500

300

4MAP

195

499

300