Acclimation of Agave potatorum Zucc. micropropagated plants

Abstract

Agave potatorum Zucc, is a wild species used intensively. The aim was to evaluate the effect of the concentration of mineral salts (MS), IBA and incubation conditions in the rooting stage on the growth of A. potatorum during climatization. The plants came from eighteen treatments resulting from combining three factors: 1) DM concentrations (50, 75, 100%); 2) IBA concentrations (without auxin, 0.5 and 1 mg L^-1) and 3) incubation environment (laboratory with fluorescent lighting or greenhouse exposed to solar radiation). The acclimatization process lasted 150 days in the greenhouse, at the end the micropropagated plants in culture medium with 0.5 to 1 mg L^-1 of IBA, (MS) at 100% and incubated in the greenhouse showed greater growth.