Overview
- Provides the recent developments in micropropagation procedures for the important plantation and horticultural crops
- Combines the research from public and private sectors involved in commercial tissue culture of plantation crops
- Includes detailed drawings and step by step experimental protocols
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This edited book is focusing on the novel and innovative procedures in tissue culture for large scale production of plantation and horticulture crops. It is bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on commercial scale tissue culture with the objective of producing high quality, disease-free and uniform planting material. Developing low cost commercial tissue culture can be one of the best possible way to attain the goal of sustainable agriculture. Tissue culture provides a means for rapid clonal propagation of desired cultivars, and a mechanism for somatic hybridization and in vitro selection of novel genotypes. Application of plant tissue culture technology in horticulture and plantation crops provides an efficient method to improve the quality and nutrition of the crops.
This book includes a description of highly efficient, low cost in vitro regeneration protocols of important plantation and horticulture crops with a detailed guideline to establish a commercialplant tissue culture facility including certification, packaging and transportation of plantlets. The book discusses somatic embryogenesis, virus elimination, genetic transformation, protoplast fusion, haploid production, coculture of endophytic fungi, effects of light and ionizing radiation as well as the application of bioreactors.This book is useful for a wide range of readers such as, academicians, students, research scientists, horticulturists, agriculturists, industrial entrepreneurs, and agro-industry employees.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Preeti Chaturvedi, is Professor and Head, Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. She did her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Botany from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India. Her research interests include in vitro morphogenesis, conservation biology, bryophyte diversity, and bioprospecting. She has successfully developed micropropagation protocols for several high value medicinal plants viz., Aconitum balfourii, Picrorhiza kurroa, Centella asiatica, Polygonatum verticillatum, and Rheum emodii. She has 65 research publications to her credit in national and international journals of repute. She has completed four research projects on micropropagation of medicinal herbs including one on bioprospecting of bryophytes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Commercial Scale Tissue Culture for Horticulture and Plantation Crops
Editors: Shubhpriya Gupta, Preeti Chaturvedi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0055-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0054-9Published: 17 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0057-0Published: 18 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0055-6Published: 16 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 335
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biotechnology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology, Plant Biochemistry