• DR SWAPAN MANDAL

Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) is a costly horticultural crop. It is a woody perennial tree of tropical origin and is being cultivated in India, Brazil and African countries. The existing plantations in India, however, are showing a trend of gradual decline in productivity. Moreover, the yield is not satisfactory and difficult to forecast each and every year. The serious limitation in Cashew production is that like many other tree plantation crop, cashew is also an extremely heterozygous and cross pollinated crop. The present study aims to standardize a reliable protocol for cashew micro propagation using cotyledonary node, terminal and nodal explants of germinated seedlings. Standardization of a reliable protocol for establishment and efficient multiplication is presented in the present chapter after a series of experiments on manipulations of culture media.

In vitro clonal production, horticultural, micro propagation, MS basal medium, cotyledonary node, terminal/auxiliary shoot.

"TISSUE CULTURE STUDIES OF CERTAIN PROMISING CASHEW GERMPLASMS.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.75-80, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905P10.pdf

"TISSUE CULTURE STUDIES OF CERTAIN PROMISING CASHEW GERMPLASMS.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp75-80, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905P10.pdf