Effect of Growth Regulators on In Vitro Micropropagation of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Gudiene and Belete Varieties from Ethiopia

Table 1

The effect of BAP and NAA on shoot initiation in Gudiene and Belete varieties of potato.

Treatments (MS + BAP + NAA (mg/l)	No. of explants inoculated	No. of shoots initiated	Unviable explants	Shoot initiation percentage
Variety- Gudiene
Basal medium (control)	9	3.40	5.66	37.77^cdef
0.5 + 1.0	9	5.68	3.32	63.11^cd
1.0 + 2.0	9	6.25	2.75	69.44^c
1.5 + 3.0	9	8.95	0.05	99.44^a
2.0 + 4.0	9	5.55	3.45	61.66^cde
Variety- Belete
Basal medium (control)	9	4.10	4.90	45.55^cde
0.5 + 1.0	9	5.61	3.39	62.33^cd
1.0 + 2.0	9	8.81	0.19	97.88^a
1.5 + 3.0	9	7.10	1.90	78.88^b
2.0 + 4.0	9	5.95	3.05	66.11^c
LSD				14.26
CV (%)				10.56

Means represented by the same lowercase are not significantly different, whereas those with different letters are significantly different.