Effect of Natural Additives as Coconut Milk on the Shooting and Rooting Media of in vitro Barhi Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)

The objective of the research study was to determine the effect of addition of different concentrations of three types of natural additives on Date Palm cv. Barhi: (1.25g/l, 2.5g/l, 5.0g/l for Casein Hydrolysate and 10%, 20%, 30% for (Coconut Milk and Yeast Extract), in addition to the control (0.05 BA mg/l) for shooting stage and (0.1 NAA mg/l, 3 g/l AC) for rooting stage. The results show that the use of 30% Coconut Milk achieved a high number of shoots and the highest shoot length was recorded with 10% Coconut Milk. In the date palm rooting stage, the results show that the use of 30% Coconut Milk increased the number of roots, shoot thickness and rooting percentage. However, root length was increased with 10% Coconut Milk. The lowest values were recorded with using Yeast Extract in this stage. Introduction Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera. L.) has a great economical importananc and agricultural uses throughout human’s history. Also, it is one of the oldest cultivated fruit trees in the world. Date palm is a very important crop in the Middle East, since it can grow well in both semi-dry desert areas and the newly cultivated land. The production of Arab world of dates is about 80% of the total production of the world. Egypt is the world largest date producing country i.e. more fruitful female palms (1.5M tonnes/annum) produce 1.694.813 tons of dates [9], [7]. In Egypt, date palm trees distribution covers a large area extends from Aswan to north Delta, beside the Oasis of Siwa, Bahriya, Farafra, Kharga, Dakhla. Egypt is one of the most productive countries of dates in the world, the number of fruitful female palms in Egypt is about 15 million produce 1.694.813 tons of dates [9]. Date palm is commonly propagated by ground offshoots; however, a female date palm produces only 10-20 offshoots in its entire life [20], which is a limiting factor for the propagation of commercial cultivars. A non-conventional technique of in vitro culture is widely used in many species including date palm [14]. The production of plants through in vitro culture is successfully introduced in many species [23]. The technique of tissue culture for propagation date palm, also called in vitro propagation, has many advantages as larg scale multiplication troughout the year, production healthy female cultivars, (disease and pest-free), or males having superior pollen; production of genetically uniform plants [19]. Recently, the natural products is using Yeast and plant extracts in vitro which have been discovered. Some undefined components such as Yeast Extracts, Frnit Juices and Protein Hydrolysate were frequently used in nutrient media as opposed to defined amino acids or vitamins as a further supplementation [4]. In addition, some other natural additives as Coconut Milk is frequently used as a popular addition to the media of orchid cultures in the floral industry of tissue culturing [5]. Natural extract could be By-Products of Palm Trees and Their Applications Materials Research Forum LLC Materials Research Proceedings 11 (2019) 186-192 doi: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900178-13 187 used at a 6% concentration as a replacement for sucrose [7] the utilization of natural additives compounds instead of hormones in culture media may decrease the possibility of genetic instability in plants. Organic additives such as Coconut Water and Casein Hydrolysate have been used to rise embryogenic callus growth and somatic embryogenesis in several plant species as well as date palm [6]. The aim of the research study was to determine the effect of different concentrations of combination natural additives such as Coconut Milk, Casein Hydrolysate and Yeast Extract, with the goal of enhancing the in vitro date palm cv. Barhi shoot and root proliferation. Materials and methods Explant and sterilization: The experiments were carried out in the Tissue Culture Laboratory for Date Palm Research and Development, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt. Four-yearold female offshoots of date palms cv. Barhi were collected and used as explants. Preparation of explants was done by removing the roots and outer green mature leaves from the offshoots, then reducing the size to less than 25 cm. remaining mature leaves were removed gradually from the bottom offshoot to the top in the laboratory [14]. The gradual removal of white young leaves and surrounding white fibrous leaf sheath resulted in 5 cm shoot tips, which were further trimmed to 2 cm for explant use. All excised shoot apexs were stored temporarily in an anti-oxidant solution (150 mg/l ascorbic acid and 100 mg/l citric acid) prior to surface-sterilization. Under aseptic conditions, shoot apexs were soaked in 70% ethanol alcohol solution for 30 seconds, followed by immersion in (1.0 g/l) of mercuric chloride for 5 min and thoroughly washed with sterilized distilled water for one-time. After that additional leaf primordial were removed from sterilized explants and then these explants were sterilized in 50%(v/v) commercial bleanch (Clorox) 5.25% w/v, sodium hypochlorite NaOCl) plus 1 drop Tween 20 for 15 min with rotary agitation, rinsed three times with sterilized distilled water. Effect of different natural additives on shooting and rooting stages: Shoots clusters which havd been received from indirect somatic embryogenesis as recomnded by (El-Dawayati et al,2018) were used as explants in this experiment. Different concentrations of three natural additives as follows: (1.25g/l, 2.5g/l, 5.0g/l for Casein Hydrolysate and 10%, 20%, 30% for Coconut Milk and Yeast Extract), were supplemented to a standard nutrient growth medium (control treatment without natural additives) for shooting and rooting, Control (treatments) were prepared by culturing the same explants on the same media under the same conditions without any supplements to study their effects on shoots development during shooting and rooting stages. All refined techniques were completed under aseptic conditions. Standerd growth media preparation for shooting stage was composed of 3⁄4 MS basal nutrient medium according to Murashige and Skoog with vitamins [16, 22], with addition of 100 mg/l Myo-Inositol; 80 Adenine Sulfate; 170 mg/l NaH2PO4.2H2O; 0.3 mgl/l Ca panthothianic acid; 0.4 mg/l thiamineHCl; 2 glycine; 0.5 mg/l nicotinic acid; 0.5 mg/l pyridoxin-HCl; 100 myo-inositol; 30g/l Sucrose; 0.05 mg/l (BA) and 0.1 NAA mg/l growth regulators and 6 g/l Agar; 7000 [Agar-agar/Gum agar] (Sigma Chem. Co., St. Louis, MO) (in mgl) [1]. Standerd growth media preparation for rooting stage Also the same different three natural additives at different concentrations were added to rooting media which consist of the same components of previous standerd growth media of shooting but supplemented only with 0.1 NAA mg/l growth regulator, with the addition of 1.5 g/l activated charcoal . and. 0.3 mgl/l Ca panthothianic acid; 0.4 mg/l thiamineHCl; 2 glycine; 0.5 mg/l nicotinic acid; 0.5 mg/l pyridoxin-HCl; 100 myoinositol; 200 glutamine; 1g; 30000 sucrose; and 6000 agar. By-Products of Palm Trees and Their Applications Materials Research Forum LLC Materials Research Proceedings 11 (2019) 186-192 doi: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900178-13 188 The pH value was adjusted at 5.7 before adding agar gerlite and autoclaving the medium at 1.2 Kg.cm equivalent to 121oC for 20 min. The nutrient media was dispensed into small jars twentyfive ml of media for shooting stage. The plantlets were cultured in tube size (25 x 250 mm) each tube contained 25 ml for rooting stage. Explants of each treatment and control treatments were transferred and repeatedly recultured for 2 recultures every 8 weeks into fresh medium of the same compostion. [10]. all samples were incubated for 16 hours under 1500 lux light conditions shooting stage and 3000 lux light conditions for rooting stage. They were then subjected to 8-hr dark conditions at 27 ± 2°C for the shoot multiplication stage. Subculturing was performed twice on the control samples and three times for the natural additives with their three different concentrations [4]. All procedures were carried out in a decontaminated horizontal laminar flow hood. The experimental design was completely randomized with three replicates in each treatment. Data recorded of 10 treatments were first analyzed as a whole using the aforementioned statistical design and then it was divided into groups as follows [14]: Table 1, Different concentrations of three types of natural additives (1.25, 2.5, 5.0 mg.L) for Casein Hydrolysate and (10%, 20%, 30% for Coconut Milk and Yeast Extract) T1 Control 0. 5 BA mg.L (Shooting stage). T2 Control 0. 1 NAA mg.L +3AC g.L (Rooting stage). T3 Casein Hydrolysate 1.25 mg.L. T4 Casein Hydrolysate 2.5 mg.L. T5 Casein Hydrolysate 5 mg.L T6 Coconut Milk 10%. T7 Coconut Milk 20%. T8 Coconut Milk 30%. T9 Yeast Extract 1.25 mg.L. T10 Yeast Extract 2.5 mg.L. T11 Yeast Extract 5 mg.L Collected data for shooting were calculated by estimated the number of shooting, shoot length per cluster in cm and shoot thickens per cluster, number of roots formed rooting % and the length of roots per cluster in cm. Statistical Analysis: A factorial design in completely randomized arrangement was used and data were subjected to analysis of variance. Difference of means among treatments was determined using L.S.D. test at the 5% significance level according to Smith et al. [11]. By-Products of Palm Trees and Their Applications Materials Research Forum LLC Materials Research Proceedings 11 (2019) 186-192 doi: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900178-13 189 Fig (3): Effect of Coconut milk, Casein Hydrolysate and Yeast extract on (shoot thickness cm) of in vitro Barhi CV. (Phoenix dactylifera L.). Fig (2): Effect of Coconut milk, Casein Hydrolysate and Yeast extract on shoot length (cm) of in vitro Barhi CV. (Phoenix dactylifera L.). Fig (1): Effect of Coconut milk, Casein Hydrolysate and Yeast extract on No. of shoots of in vitro Barhi CV. (Phoenix dactylifera