Tissue Culture Techniques in Horticultural Crops

Description

Plant tissue culture is a collection of techniques used to maintain or grow plant cells, tissues or organs under aseptic conditions on a nutrient culture medium of known composition. It is widely used to produce clones of a plant in a method known as micropropagation. Now it is a well-established technology. Like others technologies, it also has different stages of evolution, scientific research, research tool, unique applications and exploitation. The term 'micropropagation' was introduced to describe accurately the process of the universal mass clonal plant propagation system. Today plant tissue culture applications incorporate significantly more than clonal propagation. The scope of routine advancements has extended to incorporate somatic embryogenesis, somatic hybridization, and elimination of virus as well as the application of bioreactors for mass propagation. This book “Tissue Culture Techniques in Horticultural Crops” includes all the techniques used in this process along with diagrams. This book is helpful for students, researchers, policy makers and for industry.