8th INTERNATIONAL ICONTECH CONGRENCE ON INNOVATIVE SURVEYS IN POSITIVE SCIENCES, Baku, Azerbaycan, 16 - 18 Mart 2024, ss.137-143, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
In addition to giving aesthetic beauty to aquariums, plants have an important role in feeding fish and improving water quality. Bacopa monnieri, which has the ability to grow in water as well as on land, is also an important medicinal plant with anti-depressant, anti-epileptic and anti-microbial effects. It has been shown that Ceratophyllum demersum, an important aquarium plant, can also be used in the phytoremediation of waters contaminated with heavy metals. As a result of testing different nutrient media in our previous studies, it was determined that the best nutrient medium was MS for B. monnieri and SH+MSvit for C. demersum. Again, in our previous studies where different sucrose ratios were used, the highest micropropagation was obtained from the nutrient medium containing 20 g/L sucrose. In this study, half strength basic nutrient medium and different sugar sources were tested for more economical in vitro propagation. In the studies conducted, in both species, nutrient media used at ½ ratio gave higher results in terms of number of shoots per explant, shoot length, number of roots and root length than the basic nutrient media used at full strength. On the other hand, in B. monnieri, the number of shoots per explant and shoot length were found to be higher when using 20 g/L fructose than when using sucrose and glucose, but were statistically insignificant. The number of roots and root length were higher in the use of glucose and sucrose. In C. Demersum species, the number of shoots, shoot length, number of roots and root length were found to be higher in sucrose and fructose. Plants propagated in vitro are 100% adapted to aquariums.