Plant Tissue Culture

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.