Somatic embryogenesis: The cultivation of papaya by seeds is hampered by many problems such as considerable variability in a commercial population resulting from open pollination, dioeciously nature, and susceptibility to a large number of diseases (Kavitha et al.
and belongs to the family Arecaceae is a dioeciously in nature with the great majority of its economic edible products such as immature endosperm (nungu), mesocarp pulp (fruit pulp), tuberous seedlings (tuber) obtained only from female palms (Sankaralingam et al., 1999).