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Plant tissue culture, a fundamental technique of plant biotechnology, has found varied applications in the plant industry. It is an invaluable laboratory technique to study basic aspects of plant growth and development and to manipulate these processes. Decades of reasearch on in vitro morphogenesis has enabled application of plant tissue culture to rapid clonal propagation and conservation of economically important plants. A unique morphogenic phenomenon observed in tissue cultures is the ability of somatic plant cells to form embryos, structurally and functionally similar to seed embryos. Whereas plant scientists found somatic embryogenesis as an excellent system to study physiology, biochemistry and genetics of plant embryogenesis, the foresters and horticulturist look at it as potentially the most suitable system for mass clonal propagation of selected plants.
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Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology Revolution: Challenges Ahead and Some Biosafety Issues: Arie Altman; Somatic Embryogenesis in White Spruce: Physiology and Biochemistry: Claudio Stasolla, Edward C. Yeung, and Trevor A. Thorpe; Stimulatory and Inhibitory Conditioning Factors Regulating Somatic Embryogenesis in Carrot: Recent Advances: M. Umehara, T. Kobayashi, C. Eun, K. Higashi, H. Hanai, Y. Matsubayashi, Y. Sakagami, and H. Kamada; Gene Expression during Somatic Embryogenesis in Carrot Suspension Cultures: Atsushi Komamine; Germinability and Shoot Apical Meristem Differentiation of Somatic Embryos: Woong-Young Soh, Eun-Kyong Lee and Duck-Yee Cho; Tissue Culture of Woody Species: Sant S. Bhojwani, Rakhi Chaturvedi and Anupam Raina; Application of Biotechnological Tools in Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Genetic Resources: A.P. Sagare, Y.L. Lee and H.S. Tsay; Secondary Metabolites and Biotechnology in Plants: Fumihiko Sato; Estimation of Genetic Relatedness in Rice Using DNA Marker Data: Dindo A. Tabanao, Rex N. Bernardo, and Leocadio S. Sebastian; Gene Discovery and Characterization for Crop Improvement: Hong Yan; Genetic Transformation of Cereals: Richard Brettell, Fiona Murray, Peter Matthews and Jake Jacobsen; Production of Resveratrol in Transgenic Red Lettuce for Chemo Prevention of Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases: Tet-Fatt Chia and Irene Ng; Growth Responses of Tropical Epiphytic Orchid to CO2 Enrichment: Chang Run Li and Choy sin Hew; An Overview of Recent Research Efforts in Plant Virus Diseases in Singapore: Wong Sek Man; A New Approach to Control Bacterial Infections in Aquaculture: Toshihiro Nakai; A Review of Recombinant Vaccines for Aquaculture: Bacterial Systems for Vaccine Production and Delivery: B.E. Simon and J.C. Leong.
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