Plant Tissue Culture

The present book is an endeavour to make comprehensive, authentic and standard study material related to Plant Tissue Culture, accessible to the readers. This book has been assembled to accomplish the needs of undergraduate and post-graduate students of Plant Tissue Culture. Aspirants for the Civil Services and other competitive examinations too will surely gain advantage by this book.

The book is divided into twenty chapters which deal with Basic Equipment and Facilities for Plant Tissue Culture, Media Composition, Tissue Culture Techniques, Plant Cell Culture, Protoplast Isolation and Culture, Somatic Hybridization, Somatic Embryogenesis, Synthetic Seed, Micropropagation, Haploid and Triploid Production, Embryo Culture, etc. Many recent techniques are also provided such as Germplasm Storage, Genetic Transformation, Genetically Modified (GM) Plants with their Risks and Benefits, Metabolic Engineering, Useful Genes in Plant Genetic Engineering, Terminator Technology and Molecular Markers and their applications.

The primary aim of this book is to provide all relevant information covering both conventional and modern aspects of Plant Tissue Culture at one place.