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Plant tissue culture is currently used in many fields of plant biotechnology to achieve different objectives such as: 1) breeding/selection, 2) vegetative propagation, 3) secondary metabolite production, 4) cryopreservation, and 5) clarification of physiological, biochemical and genetic processes with respect to embryogenesis, organogenesis or growth and development of cultures or plant material in vitro. Cultures include: 1) cell cultures (cell and suspension cultures, callus and protoplasts), 2) seeds, 3) somatic embryos, 4) meristem cultures (meristems/buds/nodules/protocorm-like bodies/nodes), 5) organ cultures (shoots/roots/leaves/bulblets/microtubers), 6) plantlets, etc. Whatever the objective and type of culture, there are three major factors which are interrelated to each other and are always of concern to plant tissue culturists. They are: 1) preparation and sterilization of plant material, 2) culture medium composition, and 3) physical environmental conditions in the culture room and the culture vessel (DeFossard 1986). The second and third factors are concerned with chemical and physical environment in vitro.
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Kozai, T., Smith, M.A.L. (1995). Environmental control in plant tissue culture — general introduction and overview. In: Aitken-Christie, J., Kozai, T., Smith, M.A.L. (eds) Automation and environmental control in plant tissue culture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8461-6_14
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