Roslina Jawan, Gabriela J. Joeplik, Halyena Indan, Mary Magdelina Binti George, & Jualang Azlan Gansau*
School of Science and Technology,
Unit for Orchid Studies, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation,
Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Email: azlanajg@ums.edu.my
ABSTRACT. Vanda dearei is an endemic orchid of Borneo and has been listed as an endangered orchid in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Vanda dearei has beautiful pale yellow-flowers, large petals and strongly scented. Therefore, in vitro micropropagation has been applied in order to develop a novel micropropagation method to mass produce this species. Through callus culture techniques, orchids with limited resources can be mass propagated in a shorter period. However, callus culture in orchid is hardly maintain due somatic embryogenesis properties and easily regenerated to plantlets. Thus, this study aims to develop an efficient protocol for callus cultures of V. dearei by manipulating basal media strengths and carbon sources. Callus induced from the leaf segments of V. dearei were used as explants and were cultured on KC, Mitra, MS and VW basal medium at different nutrient strengths (1/4, 1/2, 1 and 2x) added with 1.0:0.1 mg/l TDZ:NAA and 1 to 4% (w/v) of sucrose, glucose or fructose, respectively. All cultures were incubated in the dark with temperature of 25±2°C. Results showed that callus growth has improved with decreased nutrients strength of basal media. Quarter strength of Mitra medium promotes the best condition for callus maintenance to approximately 8.00±17.89% at 8 weeks of culture. This is followed by the ½ strength of MS and ¼ strength of VW with 8.00±10.95% and 5.00±10.00%, respectively. Callus grown on the other basal strengths are mainly differentiated and developed into protocorm like bodies (PLBs), especially at double strengths (100±0% explants turn into PLBs). In addition, low percentage of necrosis (less than 28%) was also observed on Mitra basal medium compared to the other media (more than 36%). Sucrose has been identified as the best carbon source to support callus growth followed by glucose and fructose. Addition of 1% (w/v) sucrose increased callus maintenance up to 32±17.9%, promote cell differentiation and increased average size of callus (1.52±0.63 callus score). This treatment also support the longest retention time of explant maintained in callus for 5 weeks and has the lowest percentage of callus necrosis (20±24.5%).
KEYWORDS. Vanda dearei; Orchid; Micropropagation; Callus Maintenance
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