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Plant Tissue Culture: Propagation, Conservation and Crop Improvement

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In order to stay competitive in the global banana production, it is important to ensure that the planting materials used have consistent superior agronomic traits and are disease-free and grown in farms with good agricultural practice. The use of suckers from field-grown plants as planting materials may increase the risk in the spread of diseases and inconsistent quality. Hence, the adoption of plant tissue culture technique for mass propagation of banana planting materials has been widely used. Micropropagation of bananas has been successfully established through the use of shoot or meristem cultures and inflorescence either through direct plant regeneration or establishment of regenerable cell suspension cultures. From the cell suspension cultures, single-celled protoplasts have also been isolated and regenerated. Not only the in vitro systems developed through tissue culture provide efficient plant production but also a platform for genetic engineering for agronomic traits improvement. In this chapter, we highlight studies on banana micropropagation and field practices of this important crop.

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We sincerely apologize to the authors whose valuable studies could not be cited due to limited space. We acknowledge the funding from UMRG (RP005A-13BIO) and RU005D-2014 University of Malaya.

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  1. Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Norzulaani Khalid & Boon Chin Tan

  2. Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Norzulaani Khalid

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Khalid, N., Tan, B.C. (2016). A to Z on Banana Micropropagation and Field Practices. In: Anis, M., Ahmad, N. (eds) Plant Tissue Culture: Propagation, Conservation and Crop Improvement. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1917-3_6

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