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. 2020 Jul 9;15(7):e0230464. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230464

Table 2. Effect of various concentrations of ZnO-NPs on MS medium for callus induction frequency.

Explant Control ZnO-NPs 10 mg/L ZnO-NPs 20 mg/L ZnO-NPs 30 mg/L ZnO-NPs 40 mg/L ZnO-NPs 50 mg/L
Seeds 16.30±1.2b 53% 19.33±1.0b 63% 25.16±2.6c 83% 27.00±1.9c 90% 13.14±0.01b 43% 0.00±0.0d 0%
Internodes 19.00±0.1b 63% 19.00±0.0b 63% 29.66±2.2c 96% 26.00±0.01c 86% 17.00±2.2b 56% 5.17±1.0a (16%)

LSD for media = 4.3920. LSD for explant = 2.5227. p< 0.05. Small alphabets are average of 3 replicates each replicate had 10 treatments.