The type of cover used on the culture flask is the factor that will determine the microenvironment inside the flasks through gas exchange with external environment. Due the negative action of ethylene on in vitro cultures, there are many studies about ethylene inhibitors and one of them is the silver nitrate. This research aimed to evaluate different types of sealing and the effect of silver nitrate on in vitro multiplication of olive tree. Nodal segments of olive tree cultivated in vitro, with two buds and without apex were used. The treatments consisted in tree types of sealing (cover, aluminum and plastic film) and silver nitrate (presence or absence) added in the MO medium. On the 60th day, it was assessed the average shoot number per explant, average shoot height and average leaves number per shoot. It was observed that the use of cover and aluminum provides higher number of shoots; the use of aluminum provides the largest average leaves number; the silver nitrate and sealing with aluminum provides longer size of explants. The use of aluminum as sealing and the addition of 10mg L-1 of silver nitrate in the MO culture medium presents better results on in vitro multiplication.
micropropagation; Olea europaea; growth regulator; AgNO3
