Somatic embryogenesis involves the development of embryos from somatic cells
and results in the production of complete somatic plantlet with the potential to grow into
a whole plant. For somatic embryogenesis pathway, nodal explants treated on MS medium
with 0.015 mg·L-1 NAA + 0.5 mg·L-1 BA possessed the highest plantlet regeneration
rate (83.3%), but these plantlets were fragile and they needed to be subcultured
repeatedly on pure MS over a 28 days period for two months. A complete plantlet with
well developed cladophylls and storage roots was received through this method [Bojnauth
et al. 2003].