Production, storability and morphogenic response of alginate encapsulated axillary meristems and genetic fidelity evaluation of in vitro regenerated Ceropegia bulbosa: A pharmaceutically important threatened plant species

► Ceropegia bulbosa is a medicinally potent plant species, which requires immediate conservation. ► In the protocol presented high number of shoots are obtained from nodal segments, which subsequently produce roots on ½ strength MS. ► Encapsulated nodal segments showed 100% regeneration on medium supplemented with 8.88 μM BA. ► Encapsulated nodal segments could be stored upto a period of 60 days with more than 50% conversion into plantlets. ► Plantlets obtained from encapsulated and non-encapsulated nodal segments acclimatized well and showed upto 98% survival.