MICROPROPAGATION OF SAFED MUSLI (CHLOROPHYTUM-BORIVILIANUM), A RARE INDIAN MEDICINAL HERB

In vitro clonal multiplication of safed musli (Chlorophytum borivilian um Sant. et. Fernand.), a rare Indian medicinal herb, has been achieve d on Murashige and Skoog's (MS) medium supplemented with 22.2 mu M ben zyladenine using young shoot bases as explants. Shoots multiplied at a rate of four-fold every 3 weeks. All shoots rooted when transferred t o MS medium with 3/4-strength inorganic and organic constituents and 9 .8 mu M indolebutyric acid and 67% of the micropropagated plants were successfully established in pots. Such plants produced normal fascicul ated storage roots as in wild plants.