Plant Tissue Cutlure : Methods and Applications in Agriculture

Contents: Preface. 1. Requirements for a tissue culture facility/Stefania Biondi and Trevor A. Thorpe. 2. Nutrition, media and characteristics of plant cell and tissue cultures/Oluf L. Gamborg and Jerry P. Shyluk. 3. Growth and behavior of cell cultures: embryogenesis and organogenesis/David A. Evans, William R. Sharp and Christopher E. Flick. 4. Isolation fusion and culture of plant protoplasts/Oluf L. Gamborg, Jerry P. Shyluk and Elias A. Shahin. 5. Mutagenesis and in vitro selection/Walter Handro. 6. Meristem culture and cryopreservation methods and applications/K.K. Kartha. 7. Cytogenetic techniques/David A. Evans and Sandra M. Reed. 8. Production of Isogenic lines: basic technical aspects of androgenesis/Colette Nitsch. 9. In vitro fertilization and embryo culture/Edward C. Yeung, Trevor A. Thorpe and C. John Jensen. 10. In vitro methods applied to rice/Kiyoharu Oono. 11. In vitro methods applied to sugar cane improvement/Ming-Chin Liu. 12. In Vitro methods applied to coffee/M.R. Sondahl, L.C. Monaco and W.R. Sharp. 13. In vitro methods applied to forest trees/Harry E. Sommer and Linda S. Caldas. 14. Biosynthesis of secondary products in vitro/Otto J. Crocomo, Eugenio Aquarone and Otto R. Gottlieb. Index.