Overview
- Editors:
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S. Mohan Jain
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Pramod K. Gupta
- Stepwise protocols for somatic embryogenesis of important woody plants
- Guide for researchers to initiate somatic embryogenic cultures without too much alteration
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Section A
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- Ronald J. Newton, Wei Tang, S. Mohan Jain
Pages 1-10
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- Christian Walter, Jens I. Find, Lynette J. Grace
Pages 11-24
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- Pramod K. Gupta, Diane Holmstrom
Pages 25-34
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- Snježana Mihaljević, Sibila Jelaska
Pages 35-45
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- Edward C. Yeung, Trevor A. Thorpe
Pages 47-58
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- F. M. Tremblay, D. Iraqi, A. El Meskaoui
Pages 59-68
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- David Thompson, Fiona Harrington
Pages 69-80
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- Salajova T., Rodríguez R., Cañal M.J., Diego L.B., Berdasco M., Radojevic L. et al.
Pages 81-93
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- Wei Tang, Ronald J. Newton
Pages 95-106
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- Catherine S. Ford, Lorna J. Fischer, Nicoletta B. Jones, Sara A. Nigro, Nokwanda P. Makunga, Johannes van Staden
Pages 121-139
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- Martin Vágner, Lucie Fischerová, Jaroslava Špačková, Zuzana Vondráková
Pages 141-155
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Section B
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- R.S. Nadgauda, Shilpa S. Gogate
Pages 157-165
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- Anisha Akula, Chakradhar Akula
Pages 181-190
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- Maximova S. N., Young A., Pishak S, Miller C., Traore A., Guiltinan M. J.
Pages 209-227
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- Hussain Ara, Uma Jaiswal, V. S. Jaiswal
Pages 229-246
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- Shyamal K. Roy, Ripon K. Debnath
Pages 247-256
About this book
World population is increasing at an alarming rate and this has resulted in increasing tremendously the demand for tree products such as wood for construction materials, fuel and paper, fruits, oils and medicines etc. This has put immense pressure on the world’s supplies of trees and raw material to industry and will continue to do so as long as human population continues to grow. Also, the quality of human diet, especially nutritional components, is adversely affected due to limited genetic improvement of most of fruit trees. Thus there is an immediate need to increase productivity of trees. Improvement has been made through conventional breeding methods, however, conventional breeding is very slow due to long life cycle of trees. A basic strategy in tree improvement is to capture genetic gain through clonal propagation. Clonal propagation via organogenesis is being used for the production of selected elite individual trees. However, the methods are labour intensive, costly, and produce low volumes. Genetic gain can now be captured through somatic embryogenesis. Formation of embryos from somatic cells by a process resembling zygotic embryogenesis is one of the most important features of plants. In 1958, Reinert in Germany and Steward in USA independently reported somatic embryogenesis in carrot cultures. Since then, tremendous progress in somatic embryogenesis of woody and non-woody plants has taken place. It offers a potentially large-scale propagation system for superior clones.
