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 |
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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.