Abstract
The effects of monochromatic blue, red and far-red light from commercial available light-emitting diode modules on the in vitro growth of Ficus benjamina ‘Exotica’ were compared with the effect of fluorescent light. The plants were micropropagated on a basal medium with 0.5 mg/L IAA and 2 mg/L BA. Our study showed that monochromatic blue, red and far-red and their combinations are suitable to manipulate the number of shoots, shoot length, shoot/callus weight ratio and leaf length/width ratio in Ficus benjamina. In general, the presence of blue light had a stimulating effect on the number of shoots, but also reduced shoot length. Grown under red light, the explants produced less but more elongated shoots. Blue light stimulated callus growth even in the presence of red light. Far-red had a negative effect on biomass production in general with a reduction in total number of shoots and both shoot cluster and callus weight. Under red and far-red light conditions, the morphology of the leaves was different from blue light conditions with an increase in relative leaf length as the most prominent characteristic.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Blue light stimulated the number of shoots in in vitro Ficus benjamina.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjamina
Ficus benjaminat0 - Treatment
- blue lighte0
- Outcome
- number of shootse0
- Direction
- stimulatinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“FICUS BENJAMINA”
e0“the presence of blue light had a stimulating effect on the number of shoots, but also reduced shoot length”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue light reduced shoot length in in vitro Ficus benjamina.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminat0
- Treatment
- blue lighte0
- Outcome
- shoot lengthe0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“FICUS BENJAMINA”
e0“the presence of blue light had a stimulating effect on the number of shoots, but also reduced shoot length”
Claim · model-written summary
Under red light the Ficus benjamina explants produced fewer shoots.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminat0
- Treatment
- red lighte0
- Outcome
- shootse0
- Direction
- lesse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“FICUS BENJAMINA”
e0“Grown under red light, the explants produced less but more elongated shoots”
Claim · model-written summary
Under red light the Ficus benjamina explants produced more elongated shoots.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminat0
- Treatment
- red lighte0
- Outcome
- elongated shootse0
- Direction
- moree0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“FICUS BENJAMINA”
e0“Grown under red light, the explants produced less but more elongated shoots”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue light stimulated callus growth in Ficus benjamina even in the presence of red light.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminat0
- Treatment
- Blue lighte0
- Outcome
- callus growthe0
- Direction
- stimulatede0
- Qualifier
- even in the presence of red lighte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“FICUS BENJAMINA”
e0“Blue light stimulated callus growth even in the presence of red light”
Claim · model-written summary
Far-red light had a negative effect on biomass production, reducing total shoot number and shoot cluster and callus weight in Ficus benjamina.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminat0
- Treatment
- Far-rede0
- Outcome
- total number of shoots and both shoot cluster and callus weighte0
- Direction
- reductione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“FICUS BENJAMINA”
e0“Far-red had a negative effect on biomass production in general with a reduction in total number of shoots and both shoot cluster and callus weight”
Claim · model-written summary
Under red and far-red light the leaf morphology differed from blue light, with an increase in relative leaf length as the most prominent characteristic.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminat0
- Treatment
- red and far-red light conditionse0
- Outcome
- relative leaf lengthe0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Comparator
- blue light conditionse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“FICUS BENJAMINA”
e0“Under red and far-red light conditions, the morphology of the leaves was different from blue light conditions with an increase in relative leaf length as the most prominent characteristic”
Claim · model-written summary
Monochromatic blue, red and far-red light and their combinations are suitable to manipulate shoot number, shoot length, shoot/callus weight ratio and leaf length/width ratio in Ficus benjamina.
- Taxon
- Ficus benjaminaFicus benjaminat0
- Outcome
- number of shoots, shoot length, shoot/callus weight ratio and leaf length/width ratioe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“FICUS BENJAMINA”
e0“monochromatic blue, red and far-red and their combinations are suitable to manipulate the number of shoots, shoot length, shoot/callus weight ratio and leaf length/width ratio”
The same questions in other papers
light · growth · Ficus benjamina (weeping fig)Positive and negative results
2 papers in the same direction as this paper · 3 in the opposite direction
- positive
- positive
- positive
2 papers more in this group
See all 6 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.