A method for regenerating plants of Jatropha curcas comprising: (a) culturing cotyledon explants on a solid callus formation medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, citric acid in an amount from 10 mg/L to 30 mg/L, glutamine in an amount from 150 mg/L to 200 mg/L, casein hydrolysate in an amount of 100mg/L, sucrose in an amount of 3%, 6-benzylaminopurine, 6-BA, in an amount of 1.5 mg/L and 1-naphthaleneacetic acid, NAA, in an amount from 0.05 mg/L to 0.1 mg/L to produce explants with callus tissue; (b) culturing the callus tissue on a solid first shoot regeneration medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, citric acid in an amount from 10 mg/L to 30 mg/L, glutamine in an amount from 150 mg/L to 200 mg/L, casein hydrolysate in an amount of 100 mg/L, sucrose in an amount of 3%, adenine in an amount from 2 mg/L to 4mg/L, 6-BA in an amount of 1.5 mg/L and 3-indolebutyric acid, IBA, in an amount of 0.05 mg/L to produce callus tissue with shoots and callus tissue; (c) culturing the shoots on a solid second shoot regeneration medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, citric acid in an amount from 10 mg/L to 30 mg/L, glutamine in an amount from 150 mg/L to 200 mg/L, casein hydrolysate in an amount of 100 mg/L, sucrose in an amount of 3%, 6-BA in an amount of 1.5 mg/L, IBA in an amount of 0.05 mg/L and gibberellic acid, GA 3, in an amount from 0.05 mg/L to 0.5 mg/L to produce shoots; (d) culturing shoots from step (c) on a solid shoot elongation medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, citric acid in an amount from 10 mg/L to 30 mg/L, glutamine in an amount from 150 mg/L to 200 mg/L, casein hydrolysate in an amount of 100 mg/L, sucrose in an amount of 3%, 6-BA in an amount of 0.3 mg/L and GA 3 in an amount from 0.1 mg/L to 0.5mg/L to produce elongated shoots; and (e) rooting or grafting the elongated shoots, wherein rooting is performed by culturing the elongated shoots on a solid rooting medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, sucrose in an amount of 3% and IBA in amount of 0.07 mg/L to produce plantlets or wherein grafting is performed by grafting the elongated shoots to J. curcas rootstock. (a) culturing cotyledon explants on a solid callus formation medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, citric acid in an amount from 10 mg/L to 30 mg/L, glutamine in an amount from 150 mg/L to 200 mg/L, casein hydrolysate in an amount of 100mg/L, sucrose in an amount of 3%, 6-benzylaminopurine, 6-BA, in an amount of 1.5 mg/L and 1-naphthaleneacetic acid, NAA, in an amount from 0.05 mg/L to 0.1 mg/L to produce explants with callus tissue; (b) culturing the callus tissue on a solid first shoot regeneration medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, citric acid in an amount from 10 mg/L to 30 mg/L, glutamine in an amount from 150 mg/L to 200 mg/L, casein hydrolysate in an amount of 100 mg/L, sucrose in an amount of 3%, adenine in an amount from 2 mg/L to 4mg/L, 6-BA in an amount of 1.5 mg/L and 3-indolebutyric acid, IBA, in an amount of 0.05 mg/L to produce callus tissue with shoots and callus tissue; (c) culturing the shoots on a solid second shoot regeneration medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, citric acid in an amount from 10 mg/L to 30 mg/L, glutamine in an amount from 150 mg/L to 200 mg/L, casein hydrolysate in an amount of 100 mg/L, sucrose in an amount of 3%, 6-BA in an amount of 1.5 mg/L, IBA in an amount of 0.05 mg/L and gibberellic acid, GA 3, in an amount from 0.05 mg/L to 0.5 mg/L to produce shoots; (d) culturing shoots from step (c) on a solid shoot elongation medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, citric acid in an amount from 10 mg/L to 30 mg/L, glutamine in an amount from 150 mg/L to 200 mg/L, casein hydrolysate in an amount of 100 mg/L, sucrose in an amount of 3%, 6-BA in an amount of 0.3 mg/L and GA 3 in an amount from 0.1 mg/L to 0.5mg/L to produce elongated shoots; and (e) rooting or grafting the elongated shoots, wherein rooting is performed by culturing the elongated shoots on a solid rooting medium which comprises MS mineral salts, B5 vitamins, sucrose in an amount of 3% and IBA in amount of 0.07 mg/L to produce plantlets or wherein grafting is performed by grafting the elongated shoots to J. curcas rootstock.