Authors - Robert N. Trigiano , Department of Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Dennis J. Gray , Central Florida Research and Educational Center, University of Florida, Leesburg Covering more plants than any previous text on the subject, Plant Tissue Culture Concepts and Laboratory Exercises provides a broad perspective of the field.
Laboratory exercises illustrate concepts in the topic-specific chapters.
All chapters are authored by specialists with considerable experience in the field. Part III contains 16 chapters on propagation techniques. Topics include propagation from preexisting meristems and from nonmeristematic tissues, with discussions and laboratories on aspects of micropropagation, organogenesis and nonzygotic embryogenesis. Part IV presents crop improvement techniques. Fifteen chapters cover such topics as the use of protoplasts for plant improvement, haploid cultures, transformation, germplasm preservation, secondary product expression in vitro, and in vitro plant pathology.