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Recent Advances in Asteraceae Tissue Culture

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Plant Tissue Culture: Propagation, Conservation and Crop Improvement

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The family Asteraceae (earlier known as Compositae) comprises 43 tribes, 1600–1700 genera and about 24,000–30,000 species. This is one of the most evolved and largest families of flowering plants representing approximately 10 % of all flowering plants worldwide. The members of this family are distributed worldwide and show rich diversity of habit and habitat. Asteraceae members occupy almost every environment and continent including in the temperate regions and tropical mountains except Antarctica. In India this family is represented by nearly 177 genera and 1052 species. In the present review we tried to compile the important tissue culture works done in the family Asteraceae.

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