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Tashima Medium

Originally cited by Tashima et al., 1978. In vitro development from  seed to flower in Gastrodia verrucosa under fungal symbiosis.  Transactions of the mycological society of Japan, 19, 449-53.

For symbiotic culture of Gastrodia verrucosa.

 Ca(NO3)2 * 4 H2O

 117.0 mg

 KH2PO4

 38.3 mg

 MgSO4 * 7 H2O

 120.0 mg

 NH4NO3

 57.5 mg

 CuSO4 * 5 H2O

 0.05 mg

 H3BO3

 0.6 mg

 H2MoO4 * H2O

 0.02 mg

 MnCl2 * 4 H2O

 0.4 mg

 ZnSO4 * 7 H2O

 0.05 mg

 Ferric citrate

 10 mg

 Watermelon juice

 70 ml

 Sucrose

 20 g

 Meal or withered bamboo leaves*

Adjust pH to 5.4-5.5 after autoclaving.

* Leaves rinsed in tap water, boiled at 100 C for 60 minutes in DI,  dried at 80 C with hot air, and finely ground. Serves as carbon  source for fungus, and substrate (replacing agar). Quantity not specified.

Source: Rasmussen, H. Terrestrial orchids from seed to mycotrophic plant. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1995.

 

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