Abstract
Rooting of in vitro axillary shoots from adult field culms of Bambusa atra, Dendrocalamus giganteus and D. hookeri and of juvenile seedling shoots of D. giganteus were investigated. B. atra rooted spontaneously without exogenous auxin during axillary shoot proliferation, while both Dendrocalamus species rooted only on transfer to rooting media with indole-3-butyric acid (IBA). D. giganteus required coumarin, an auxin protector, in addition to IBA. Rooting in adult shoots of D. giganteus was lower (45.6%) than that in the juvenile shoots (96.7%) but adult shoots of D. hookeri rooted well (88.9%). A pretreatment with thidiazuron (TDZ: N-phenyl- N-[(1,2,3-thidiazol-5-yl)urea]) induced development of axillary buds and subsequently 95% rooting in adult D. giganteus shoots but had no significant effect on rooting in juvenile shoots of D. giganteus or D. hookeri. Pretreatment with tri iodobenzoic acid (TIBA) arrested shoot and bud development leading to very low or no rooting in all three species.
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