A Simple Method to Obtain Microbial-free in vitro Moss Cultures

Document Type : Original Article

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Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbasia, Cairo, Egypt.

Abstract

Developing a suitable method for moss sterilization is a crucial step for successful in
vitro culture. Different chemical and physical methods have been tried by many authors
for more than a century but with low axenic culture percentages. An easy and economic
(no use of chemicals or antibiotics) cultivation method is developed here, which proved
high success with three moss species starting from gametophores.

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