O Premila Chanu
Modern College, India
Title: A preliminary work on the micro propagation of Melothria perpusilla, (Local name, Lam Thabi), a time tested medicinal plant used in traditional treatment in liver diseases in Manipur
Biography
Biography: O Premila Chanu
Abstract
The different ethnic communities in Manipur has well-established knowledge, skills, beliefs and practices relating to promotion of positive health and avoidance of sickness even before the hospital oriented system of medicine. But we, the inhabitants are destroying our resource of medicinal plants for our livelihood, construction of houses and offices unknowingly of the hazards made by ourselves to us. The current study is presenting the tissue culture of an endangered medicinal plant, Melothria perpusilla used specially in liver diseases using Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium in different combinations. Morphogenetic changes were observed in Melothria perpusilla explants in the MS supplemented with different concentrations of PGR. Different colours of callus formation were observed in MS supplemented with BAP, kinetin and IBA