Effect of Potting Mixtures on Invitro Raised Plantlets of Picrorhiza kurroa

Abstract

Being one of the most littered items of the world, cigarette filters pose as perhaps the most toxic waste which pollutes land and oceans to the core all at once. Global efforts for this issue today, are not just a thing to ponder upon but a huge necessity before us. Degradation of such toxic waste in a sustainable yet cheaper ways, such that each country can adopt it and develop into a worldwide phenomenon is the need of the hour. One of the best ways to solve this problem is to treat those CBs with de-acytalation process so that the cellulose acetate could break down and to mix that in the soil or bio-compost for its faster degradation in nature. Cigarette filters contain 95% of cellulose acetate (plastic), a plasticizer, triacetin (glycerol triacetate), is applied to bond the fibers and It contains more than 12,000 white fibers and microscopically these fibers are Y shaped and contain the delustrant titanium dioxide. Our study aims in creating bio-compost with the residual organic household wastes such as wet waste of kitchen, coconut husk powder, vegetable and fruit peels with varying ratios of (5%, 10% and 15%)CBs in it. Then, the survival of medicinal plant P.kurroa was checked in all the different potting mixtures after 4 weeks of observation.