Can I culture the seed of wild Iranian Orchid on MS medium?

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Haeng-Hoon Kim

In our lab., Hyponex medium (2.2 g/L) supplemented with 1 g/L activated charcoal has been used for more than 15 orchid species (seeds, rhizomes, PLBs).

Ashok Ahuja

You may try but my suggestion is try simplified medium with low nitrates.

Bastian Steudel

This depends strongly on the species. Knudson C is a well established first guess, but there are several orchids not performing very well with it. Could you give species or genus names you are especially interested in? Conservation, by the means for a collection or do you plan to re-introduce the plants?