In view of these problems, the aims of the present research were (1) to develop an efficient
and reproducible protocol for micropropagation, (2) to develop synthetic seeds by encapsulation
of shoot tips for short-term storage and germplasm exchange, (3) to allow ex vitro rooting
to reduce the cost and time from laboratory to field transfer, and (4) to evaluate the genetic
fidelity among the in vitro regenerated plantlets using a randomly amplified polymorphic
DNA (RAPD) marker.