A Review on Clonal Propagation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants through Stem Cuttings for Promoting their Cultivation and Conservation

Plant based drugs are being popularized in recent past owing to their long-term benefits without causing side effects. Medicinal and aromatic plants are major sources of these drugs, whose quality is largely dependent on active ingredients present in them. Today alarge number of species are on the v...

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Published inCurrent Agriculture Research Journal Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 122 - 138
Main Authors Waman, Ajit Arun, Smitha, G.R., Bohra, Pooja
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bhopal Enviro Research Publishers 31.08.2019
Subjects
Conservation
Cultivation
Cuttings
Drugs
Endangered & extinct species
Exploitation
Ingredients
Medicinal plants
Multiplication
Physiology
Plant propagation
Propagation
Rooting
Seed set
Side effects
Species extinction
Standardization
Stems
Success
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Summary:Plant based drugs are being popularized in recent past owing to their long-term benefits without causing side effects. Medicinal and aromatic plants are major sources of these drugs, whose quality is largely dependent on active ingredients present in them. Today alarge number of species are on the verge of extinction due to unscientific management practices, over-exploitation, destructive harvesting, poor seed set, low seed viability, pest and disease incidence etc. Hence, there is a great need for their conservation through cultivation for which standardization of propagation methodologiesis of prime importance. Multiplication of these species clonally through cuttings can make their cultivation economicby providing true to type plants that are known to have optimum levels of active ingredients. Rooting of stem cuttings is a crucial step in plant propagation and there is great variability in the rooting ability of different species. Even though propagation through cuttings appears to be the simplest of all methods, its success depends on a number of factors and the present review concerned highlighting their importance in the context of medicinal and aromatic plants multiplication.
ISSN:2347-4688
2321-9971
DOI:10.12944/CARJ.7.2.01