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Tissue culture-induced DNA methylation in crop plants: a review
Plant tissue culture techniques have been extensively employed in commercial micropropagation to provide year-round production. Tissue culture...
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Somaclonal Variation for Sugarcane Improvement
Cell and tissue culture approaches serve as an important and an easily accessible source for the creation and utilization of variability in sugarcane...
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Breeding of ornamentals: success and technological status
Breeding for new ornamental varieties is quite often a profitable occupation in the world. Worldwide breeding activities have generated a massive...
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Cell and Tissue Culture Approaches in Relation to Crop Improvement
Plant cell and tissue culture involves the growing of cells, tissues and organs on synthetic medium under closely controlled and aseptic conditions....
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Somatic Cell Genetics and Its Application in Potato Breeding
This chapter presents a summary of published work on the development, achievements and interconnections of research on potato somatic cell genetics....
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Comparison of the morphogenic potential of five Gentiana species in leaf mesophyll protoplast culture and ploidy stability of regenerated calli and plants
The morphogenic potential of five Gentiana species of medicinal and ornamental value, i.e. G . cruciata , G. kurroo , G. lutea , G. septemfida , and G....
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Micropropagation Technology and Its Applications for Crop Improvement
Micropropagation is one of the current commercial applications of plant tissue culture technologies. It refers to the in vitro clonal propagation of...
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Protoplast isolation and genetically true-to-type plant regeneration from leaf- and callus-derived protoplasts of Albizia julibrissin
Protoplast isolation and subsequent plant regeneration of Albizia julibrissin was achieved from leaf and callus explants. Leaf tissue from 4 to...
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The recipient potato cultivar influences the genetic makeup of the somatic hybrids between five potato cultivars and one cloned accession of sexually incompatible species Solanum bulbocastanum Dun.
Somatic hybridization is a biotechnological tool, which allows the transfer of multiple resistance genes from sexually incompatible Solanum species...
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Protoplast-to-plant regeneration of American elm (Ulmus americana)
This study describes a protocol for regeneration of plants from cell suspension-derived protoplasts of American elm ( Ulmus americana ). Efficient...
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From Němec and Haberlandt to Plant Molecular Biology
The high regenerative capacity of plants is a crucial feature of their life strategy. It is an essential part of the mechanisms that both allow these...
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Nuclear and cytoplasmic genome components of Solanum tuberosum + S. chacoense somatic hybrids and three SSR alleles related to bacterial wilt resistance
The somatic hybrids were derived previously from protoplast fusion between Solanum tuberosum and S. chacoense to gain the bacterial wilt resistance...
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Inhibition of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis increases cell wall digestibility, protoplast isolation, and facilitates sustained cell division in American elm (Ulmus americana)
BackgroundProtoplast technologies offer unique opportunities for fundamental research and to develop novel germplasm through somatic hybridization,...
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Somaclonal Variation in Date Palm
The exploration of somaclonal variation is an approach that could provide date palm breeding programs with new genotypes. Naturally occurring or...
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Somaclonal variation in plants: causes and detection methods
Plant tissue culture has become one of the fundamental tools of plant science research. It is extensively employed in the production, conservation...
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Nuclear DNA content and chromosome number in somatic hybrid allopolyploids of Solanum
An attempt was made to change the proportion of the parental genomes in interspecific hybrids Solanum nigrum + S. tuberosum ( ngr + tbr ) by means of...
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In Vitro Selection for Abiotic Stress in Date Palm
In vitro-selection of date palm cultivars with an enhanced tolerance to abiotic stress represents a great support to the breeding...
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Seaweed protoplasts: status, biotechnological perspectives and needs
Protoplasts are living plant cells without cell walls which offer a unique uniform single cell system that facilitates several aspects of modern...
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Seaweed protoplasts: status, biotechnological perspectives and needs
Protoplasts are living plant cells without cell walls which offer a unique uniform single cell system that facilitates several aspects of modern...
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Interspecific somatic hybrids Solanum bulbocastanum (+) S. tuberosum H-8105
Interspecific somatic hybrids between a dihaploid potato clone H-8105 susceptible to Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary and a resistant diploid...