From the Back Cover
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 commercial plant 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.
Dr Shubhpriya Gupta, completed her Ph.D. in Botany from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. Currently, she is working as a PostDoctoral Researcher at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, and as a visiting Scientist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. She is the Founder and Director of Gustaden Manuscript Services, India. Her research field includes plant hormones, biostimulants, plant tissue culture, seed physiology, analytical chemistry, and biotechnology. She is the author/coauthor of 20 peer-reviewed articles, which have been published in ISI-rated journals. She is the review board editor of the South African Journal of Botany. She has received an Y1 (Young researcher) rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa in January 2022.
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.
