| dc.description.abstract | Oranges are one of the plants that are widely cultivated in the world.  The 
problem of the production of Berastagi sweet oranges includes pests and diseases, 
weather factors, less fertile soil quality and non -optimal nutrition and lack of 
appropriate care causes the quality and production of oranges decreases.  Efforts 
that can be made to maintain superior nature of sweet orange plants are related 
to the propagation of tissue culture.  This study aims to determine the effect of the 
concentration of NAA and BAP growth regulators on germination of sweet orange 
seeds in vitro.  This study was conducted at the Plant Biotechnology Laboratory, 
Faculty of Agriculture, University of North Sumatra from October 2024 to March 
2025. The method used was a complete random design (RAL) with two treatment 
factors.  The first factor is the NAA concentration with a level of 0, 1.5 ppm, 2 
ppm, and 2.5 ppm and the second factor is the concentration of BAP with a level 
of 0, 1 ppm, 2 ppm and 3 ppm.  Observed parameters include the percentage of 
life explants, the percentage of explants forming shoots, time of shoots, time of 
roots, number of shoots, shoot height, number of roots and number of leaves.  The 
results showed that the administration of NAA and BAP had no significant effect 
on the percentage of life explants, the percentage of explants forming shoots and 
height of the shoots, but the administration of NAA had a significant effect on the 
time of roots, the number of shoots, the number of roots and the number of leaves, 
the administration of BAP significantly affected the time of the shoots, the number 
of shoots, the number of roots and the number of leaves, the interaction between 
the two treatments did not significantly affect all observation parameters. | en_US |