The aim of this research was to evaluate the effect of different forms of leaf explants inoculation in nutritive medium of Eugenia involucrata DC., an native forest species with diverse economic potentials. Inoculations were evaluated at abaxial and adaxial positions, with and without cuts on the leaf surface in the MS nutritive medium supplemented with 10 µM NAA or combination, in µM, of 2.4-D and BAP: 5-5 and 5-10. The explants position inoculation affects the callus induction and organogenesis in E. involucrata leaf segments, being the abaxial the most suitable position, without cuts in the leaf surface. The combination of growth regulators 2.4-D and BAP, at concentrations of 5-10( µM) was most promising of callus obtaining, especially nodular callus, putative at somatic embryogenesis.
explants position; nodular callus; organogenesis; culture medium
