ABSTRACT
Bananas and plantain are important staples and are key components of the farming systems in the humid lowland ecologies of Africa (Tenkouano et al., 2019). A study was conducted to know the effect of initiation media on in vivo macropropagation of three musa spp. The study was conducted at Horticultural Unit of the Teaching and Research Farm of the Department of Crop science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. The experiment was 5 X 3 factorial laid out in a completely randomized designe (CRD) with three replications. Five treatments Sawdust (SD), Rice husk (RH),Plantain leaves (PL), Sawdust (SD) + Rice husk (RH), and Sawdust (SD) + Plantain leaves (PL). The data collected wereAverage Weight of Corm,, Days to First Sprout Emergence, Number of Sprouted Buds per Corm,Number of Shoots per Corm,Shoot Height,Shoot Collar Girth,Number of Leaves, Number of Roots,Number of Plantlets, Number of Plantlets per Corm, Temperature,Survival Percentage.
