The present work studied the final stages of blackberry cv. Brazos micropropagation, including rooting and acclimatization. The experiments were carried out in the Plant Micropropagation Laboratory at UFPR, Curitiba-PR, during March 2000 until July 2001. In the in vitro rooting with or without immersion in IBA, the percentage of rooting was higher than 95% in both treatments. In the experiment of ex vitro rooting, with micro-shoots proceeding from the multiplication with different cytokinins, the rooting and survival rates were of 100%. In the final stage it was tested the influence of sucrose of the in vitro rooting media on the acclimatization. All the treatments showed 100% of survival. It can be concluded that an efficient in vitro rooting can be realized without both IBA and sucrose in the culture media with acclimatization under plastic tunnel or ex vitro rooting and acclimatization under intermittent mist in a greenhouse.
blackberry; Rubus sp.; micropropagation
