Lack of information is available on practicality and profitability of in vitro multiplied plants of clonal apple rootstocks as compared to field multiplied plants through conventional methods. To develop a best economical and suitable protocol through in vitro techniques of apple clonal rootstock MM106, the present investigation was carried at Plant Tissue Culture laboratory of School of Biotechnology (SBT) and Tissue Culture laboratory of Advanced Centre for Horticulture Research (ACHR), Udheywalla campus, SKUAST-Jammu during the year 2018. Results from the investigations indicated that the unit cost of one in vitro raised plantlet from explant which were excised from 2-3 year-old clonal rootstock of apple was estimated to be Rs. 44.56, whereas through conventional methods the estimated production cost of ex vitro seedling is Rs. 80.00.

Apple, MM106, economics, in vitro and ex vitro.

Lack of information is available on practicality and profitability of in vitro multiplied plants of clonal apple rootstocks as compared to field multiplied plants through conventional methods. To develop a best economical and suitable protocol through in vitro techniques of apple clonal rootstock MM106, the present investigation was carried at Plant Tissue Culture laboratory of School of Biotechnology (SBT) and Tissue Culture laboratory of Advanced Centre for Horticulture Research (ACHR), Udheywalla campus, SKUAST-Jammu during the year 2018. Results from the investigations indicated that the unit cost of one in vitro raised plantlet from explant which were excised from 2-3 year-old clonal rootstock of apple was estimated to be Rs. 44.56, whereas through conventional methods the estimated production cost of ex vitro seedling is Rs. 80.00.

Lal, M., Jamwal, M., Sharma, M., Bakshi, P., Jasrotia, A., Kumar, A., and Deep, A. (2021). Economics of In Vitro Grown Plantlets of Clonal Apple MM-106 Rootstock. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(2): 332-335.