Overview
- The book fulfils the gap of an up-to-date book on plant tissue culture suitable for researchers and students alike
- The book gives latest information on the current research work carried out in the field of plant tissue culture
- The book is interdisciplinary in nature and will be of use to botanists, agriculturists, ecologists, biotechnologists and horticulturists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Reviews
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“Bhojwani and Dantu … provide solid background information on and recommendations for establishing plant tissue culture labs, and discuss the theory, development, and recent advances for numerous plant tissue culture applications. … the book describes techniques in considerable detail, and several chapters are supplemented with full protocols. This volume will be particularly useful as an overview of plant tissue culture applications for graduate-level students and professionals new to the field. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” (R. M. Warner, Choice, Vol. 51 (4), December, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr S.S. Bhojwani has over 40 years of experience of research and teaching Plant Biotechnology to undergraduate and postgraduate students. After 33 years of service at the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, in 2002 Professor Bhojwani moved to Agra as the Director of the Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University). He continues as Emeritus Professor of Botany with the DEI. Prof. Bhojwani has published over 90 original research papers in reputed international journals and guided 17 doctoral and 11 M.Phil. thesis and authored/edited 7 books on Plant Tissue Culture and the Embryology of Angiosperms, some of which have been translated into Japanese and Korean languages. Prof. Bhojwani has been a Member of Organizing Committee, Session Chairman, Organizer of Workshop, and Invited Speaker for several National and International Conferences held in India and overseas. He has been the recipient of many international Fellowships for advanced research in Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, South Korea, and U.K. He has been on the editorial boards of the journals Scientia Horticulurae, Plant Biotechnology Reports and Plant Tissue Culture.
Dr. P.K. Dantu has 20 years of research and teaching experience in the field of Plant Biotechnology. After completing Ph.D. in 1992, he joined IARI and worked on genetic modification of Lathyrus sativus to produce OX-DAPRO-free lines. He was instrumental in setting up a commercial plant tissue culture laboratory with a production capacity of half-a-million horticultural species. In 1997, Dr Dantu returned to academics and after a brief stint at University of Delhi, in 2004 he joined the Department of Botany, DEI as Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2012. Prof. Dantu is currently working on various biotechnological aspects of medicinal plants. He has guided 5 doctoral and 4 M.Phil. theses and 10 M.Sc. dissertations. He has published 20 research papers and contributed 6 book chapters. He participated in several national and international conferences and was invited as Resource person to the International conference on “Biodiversity Conservation and Education for Sustainable Development: Learning to Conserve Biodiversity in a Rapidly Developing World” held during CBD COP-11 in Hyderabad.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Tissue Culture: An Introductory Text
Authors: Sant Saran Bhojwani, Prem Kumar Dantu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1026-9
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1025-2Published: 06 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2862-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-1026-9Published: 20 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 309
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture, Plant Sciences, Developmental Biology, Forestry, Cell Culture