Table 1 - AgNO3 - a potential regulator of ethylene activity and plant growth modulator

Table 1. Influence of silver nitrate on in vitro responses in various plants.

Plant	Response	Reference
Albizzia julibrissin	In vitro shoot formation	Sankhla et al. 1995
Andrographis paniculata	Somatic embryogenesis	Martin, 2004
Apple	Higher efficiency of regeneration and transformation	Seong et al. 2005
Arachis hypogea	Regeneration	Pestana, 1999
Arachis hypogea	Multiple shoot formation	Ozudogru et al. 2005
Albizzia procera	Plant regeneration	Kumar et al. 1998b
Bactris gasipaes	Enhance embryogenic competence	Steinmacher et al. 2007
Brassica campastris	Shoot regeneration	Palmer, 1992
Brassica juncea	Microspore embryogenesis	Prem et al. 2005
Capsicum annuum	Shoot development and plant regeneration	Hyde and Phillips, 1996
Cicer arietinum	Somatic embryo induction	Patil et al. 1999
Cichorium intybus	Shoot length, shoot number, flowering	Bais et al. 2001a; Bais et al. 2001b; Bais et al. 2001c
Coffea arabica	Shoot growth Somatic embryogenesis Direct somatic embryogenesis	Ganesh and Sreenath, 1996 Giridhar et al. 2003 Giridhar et al. 2004
Coffea canephora	Shoot growth Somatic embryogenesis Direct somatic embryogenesis	Giridhar et al. 2003 Giridhar et al. 2004; Kumar et al. 2007 Fuentes et al. 2000
Cucumis sativus	Shoot regeneration Sex expression	Mohiuddin et al. 1997 Atsmon and Tabbak, 1979
Daucus carota	Somatic embryogenesis	Nissen et al. 1994
Decalepis hamiltonii	In vitro root formation and shoot formation	Bais et al. 2000a; Bais et al. 2000b; Reddy et al. 2001
Egyptian maize	Enhanced the formation of embryogenic type II callus	El-Itriby et al. 2003
Eleusine coracana	Plant regeration	Kothari-Chajer et al. 2008
Glycine max	Shoot formation on hypocotyls	Wang and Xu, 2008
Gossypium sp.	Leaf abscission Enhance multiple shoot production from hypocotyl segments	Beyer, 1976a Divya et al. 2008
Helianthus annuus	Regeneration and shoot organogenesis	Chraibi et al. 1991
Hordium vulgare	Somatic embryogenesis Plant regeneration	Castillo et al. 1998 Jha et al. 2007
Ipomoea batatas	Shoot regeneration	Gong et al. 2005
Manihot esculenta	Shoot organogenesis	Zang et al. 2001
Morus Alba	Modification of sex expression	Thomas, 2004
Nicotiana plumbaginifolia	Shoot regeneration	Purnahauser et al. 1987
Oryza sativa	Androgenesis	Lentini et al. 1995
Paspalum scrobiculatum	Plant regenerarion	Kothari-Chajer et al. 2008
Passion fruit	Regeneration	Reis et al. 2003
Penisittum glaucum	Plant regeneration	Oldach et al. 2001
Penisittum glaucum	Regeneration from zygotic embryos	O'Kennedy et al. 2004
Pennisettum americanum	Plant regeneration	Plus et al. 1993
Phaseolus vulgaris	Shoot development	Cruz de Carvalho et al. 2000
Phoenix dactylifera	Somatic embryogenesis	Al-Khayri and Al-Bahrany, 2001; Al-Khayri and Al-Bahrany, 2004
Picea glauca	Somatic embryogenesis	Kong and Yeung, 1994
Picea glauca	Maturation of somatic embryos	El Meskaoui et al. 2000
Pisum sativum	Shoot growth	Beyer, 1975
Punica granatum	Adventitious shoot regeneration.	Naik and Chand, 2003
Quassia amara	somatic embryogenesis	Martin and Madassery, 2005
Raphanus sativus	Shoot regeneration	Pua et al. 1996
Rubus sp	Inhibits callous formation during shoot multiplication	Tsao and Reed, 2002
Sorghum bicolor	Plant regeneration	Oldach et al. 2001
Stenotaphrum secundatum	Embryogenic callus shoot regeneration.	Fei et al. 2000
Tagetes erecta	Plant growth flowering and seed viability
Triticum aestivum	Plant regeneration from callus Improved embryogenic callus frequency	Yu et al. 2008 Wu et al. 2006
Vanilla planifolia	Shoot growth and in vitro root formation	Giridhar et al. 2001
Vicia faba	Promoted root formation	Khalafalla and Hattori, 2000
Vigna ungiculata	In vitro regeneration	Brar et al. 1999
Zea mays	Regenerable callus Embryogenic calli from embryo scutellum	Songstad et al. 1988 Valdez-Ortiz, 2007

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