Table 1.

Effect of sucrose concentration on growth and glycoside content in hairy root clone (14-P) of P. kurroa after 40^th days of culture

Sucrose Concentration (%)	Fresh weight (gm)	Dry Weight (gm)	Growth Index	Glycoside (% DW)	Kutkoside (% DW)	Picroside I (% DW)
0.5	0.84 ± 0.01	0.082 ± 0.001	4.68 ± 0.07	1.44 ± 0.09	0.077 ± 0.004	0.056 ± 0.005
1.0	1.45 ± 0.12	0.141 ± 0.012	8.05 ± 0.67	3.27 ± 0.16	0.207 ± 0.010	0.173 ± 0.017
2.0	2.46 ± 0.09	0.244 ± 0.010	13.66 ± 0.48	4.22 ± 0.13	0.349 ± 0.013	0.236 ± 0.014
3.0	5.33 ± 0.09	0.528 ± 0.009	29.59 ± 0.49	6.28 ± 0.12	0.858 ± 0.009	0.570 ± 0.068
4.0	5.67 ± 0.17	0.542 ± 0.012	31.35 ± 1.11	6.57 ± 0.14	0.964 ± 0.013	0.661 ± 0.015
5.0	5.26 ± 0.10	0.518 ± 0.010	29.20 ± 0.54	5.52 ± 0.18	0.670 ± 0.017	0.375 ± 0.016
6.0	3.73 ± 0.13	0.365 ± 0.016	20.72 ± 0.75	5.27 ± 0.13	0.632 ± 0.012	0.403 ± 0.010
7.0	2.55 ± 0.16	0.252 ± 0.013	14.14 ± 0.89	4.40 ± 0.18	0.603 ± 0.015	0.393 ± 0.011
8.0	2.62 ± 0.14	0.252 ± 0.010	14.53 ± 0.77	4.69 ± 0.10	0.601 ± 0.016	0.342 ± 0.006
CD 5%	0.26	0.025	1.52	0.31	0.027	0.056
CD 1%	0.36	0.034	2.09	0.43	0.037	0.077