Mini Review

Tissue Culture of Cat Whiskers (Orthosiphon stamineus)

Totik Sri Mariani¹*, Elfahmi¹, Yesi Gusnelti¹ and Hiroshi Miyake²

¹Biosciences and Biotechnology Research Centre, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

²Graduate School of Bio agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan

Submission: January 20, 2018; Published: February 21, 2018

*Corresponding author: Totik Sri Mariani, Biosciences and Biotechnology Research Centre, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, Email: totiksrimariani@yahoo.com

How to cite this article: Totik Sri Mariani, Elfahmi, Yesi Gusnelti, Hiroshi Miyake.Tissue Culture of Cat Whiskers (Orthosiphon stamineus). JOJ Hortic Arboric. 2018; 1(1): 555553.

Abstract

Tissue culture of cat whiskers is a method in plant micropropagationn. However, there is still an obstacle in sinensetin production due to a difficulty to obtain pure sinensetin. In this mini review, development of embryogenic callus and direct organogenesis from leaf explant are described. Using this method, we could help of plant biotechnology to get sinensetin substance.

Keywords: Embryogenic callus; Shoot; Sinensetin; Biotechnology

Introduction

Cat whiskers (Orthosiphon stamineus) are commonly used as Java tea to treat kidney stones including a variety of angiogenesis-dependent diseases such as tumorous edema, rheumatism, diabetic blindness and obesity [1].

Embriogenic callus is the formation of callus that could develop into somatic embryos. Supplementation of amino acid, namely proline is necessary for the embryogenic callus formation. Mariani [2] used proline for somatic embryogenesis of rice.

Direct organogenesis is the formation of shoot from explant, such as leaf. Balance of auxin and cytokinins is a prerequisite for its process. Leaf age affect the process as well.

According to Yam [3], Orthosiphon stamineus extracts contain three flavonoids [3] as bioactive substances. Another secondary metabolite, namely osmarinic acid was reported by [4]. They found that the time of harvesting the plant cells from the culture medium affected the production of rosmarinic acid in cell cultures.

Induction

The role of auxin

For embryogenic callus initiation, 50micro molar 2, 4-D was used. The embryogenic calli were sub cultured on a monthly basis on the same medium with decreasing the concentration of 2, 4-D to 10 micromolar 2,4 -D [5]. In our study, embryogenic callus of 2, 4-D was induced with 2 ppm of 2, 4-D. Figure 1 shows the embryogenic callus of cat whiskers.

Physiological requirement

The physiological requirement of inducing the embryogenic callus depends on age of explant. We used young leaves as the explant while Smiskova et al., 2005 used immature seeds for initiating the embryogenic callus of Schisandra chinensis. Mariani [2] reported that scutellum of immature zygotic embryo was very good for direct somatic embryogenesis in rice. It is due to there is storage accumulation of protein and starch in the scutellum.

Review about the somatic embryo was explained in Mariani [2]. Growth of embryo from leaf explant was also described in sugarcane by [6]. Supplementation of proline in medium helped growth of somatic embryo and embryogenic callus. Proline is amino acids that influence physiology of the explant.

In Direct organogenesis process, shoots developed directly on the leaf explant. Age of leaf influenced formation of shoot. Therefore, young leaf was used in this study. Figure 2 shows shoots of cat whiskers. Physiology of the leaf is the main factor. Rashid [7] reported indirect organogenesis from explant of nodal stem segment. In indirect organogenesis, shoot developed from callus. Direct organogenesis is preferred because it is without intervening of callus. Therefore, it could reduce soma clonal variation.

Perspective and conclusion

Two processes in tissue culture of Cat Whiskers have been described. These processes include embryogenic callus induction and direct organogenesis. For the future, tissue culture of cat whiskers (Orthosiphon stamineus) could be used for micro propagation and production of sinensetin in horticulture.

Acknowledgement

We thank for N. Heni Hanurati for assisting in tissue culture of cat whiskers.

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