Kao Corporation

Shinta Ueda

Kazuya Otsuji

Kikuhiko Okamoto

Yukio Sugimura

Wakayoshi Higashi

A method is provided for the regeneration of an individual coconut plantlet. It comprises culturing a tissue explant of an undifferentiated male flower of a coconut tree in a culture medium, which contains 10-50 ppm of an auxin, 0.1-3% of a polysaccharide produced by a bacterium of Pseudomonas and 0.05-1% of activated carbon, in a dark place until a shoot-like structure appears; and then culturing under exposure to light of 3,000-20,000 luxes while repeating its subculture in a fresh culture medium.

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Ichikai, Japan

Shinta Ueda