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Our knowledge of cell and tissue cultures has been developing with increasing knowledge, specially in bio-transformation, forestry, genetic engineering, morphogenesis, somatic bybridization, maintaining pathogen free plants and rapid clonal propagation, totipotency, differentiation, cell division, cell nutrition, metabolism, radion biology, cell preservation etc. It is now possible to cultivate cells in quantity, or as clones from single cells; to grow whole plant from isolated meristems and to induce callus or even single cell to develop in to complete plant either by organogenesis or directly by embryogenesis in vitro.  The production of pure haploid plants through tissue culture from anthers or isolated microspores and of protoplasts from higher plant cells has served as the basis tools for genetic engineering and somatic hybridization. Tissue culture technique helps to propagate plants or economic importance such as orchids and other ornamental plants enlarge numbers by their meristem culture by either in vitro methods. This provides from vimsfree plantlets. Propagation of valuable economic plants through tissue culture basedon the principle of totipotency (every cell within the plant has the potential to give rise a whole plant). In plant breeding, ovary and ovule culture as well as in vitro pollination have been employed to overcome morphological and physiological sterility and incompatibility. In recent years, plant tissue culture technique is in increasing use for producing haploids from anthers or isolated microspores, and of protoplants from higher plant cells and the recognition of the potential of these materials in genetics and plant breeding. One of the most significant developments in the field of plants/tissues culture during recent years are the isolation, culture and fusion techniques which have the special importance in studies of plant improvement by cell modification and somatic hybridization.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR M P Singh

Dr. M.P. Singh, Head of the Department of Forest Sciences, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi (Jharkhand) earned his mater's degree in Botany with specialization in Taxonomy and after his PH.D degree in Floristic from Patna University and Diploma in Forestry from Forest Research Institute, Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, Dehradun. He is a fellow in Life Sciences of Mendelian Society of India, Patna. Besides teaching Dr. Singh has been engaged with independent research in Project of Government of India as Principal investigator. He is noted Taxonomist of the country and have about twenty one years of long experiences. He is an advisor to the Government of India for whole Eastern Region on Horistic research and member of FLORA INDIA. He is the Editor of Journal "New Botanist" for forestry sector. He has published eight books in Botany, Forestry and on Environmental Sciences and also published eighty five research papers in National/International Journals. He has also guided a number of Scholar for award of Ph. D. degree in Botany as well as in Forestry. He is one of the member of Botanical Survey of India in a Research Selection Committee. He has extensively travelled in India and abroad in conection to floristic studies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sunil Kumar

Dr. Sunil Kumar teaches in the Department of History, Delhi University. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1992. His book ‘The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate 1190-1290’ is in press. Meanwhile he has completed another manuscript titled, ‘Sites of Power and Resistance: A Study of Sultanate Monumental Architecture’. Dr. Kumar resides in Saket, in South Delhi, near the sites discussed in this book.

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Title
Plant Tissue Culture
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788131304396
Length
viii+278p., Tables; Figures; Plates; 23cm.
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