Substantial advances have been made in the development of protocols enabling organogenesis  and whole plant regeneration in cells, organs and tissues of a large number of plant species, even in some of those considered as recalcitrant. Now plant tissue culture is recognized as a subject of theoretical and practical importance and hos become on integral component of agriculture biotechnology. This volume is a comprehensive textbook and on update of the previous edition published in 2003 giving insight of the major technological advancements from that period onwards on basic techniques, clonal propagation, haploid and triploid production, zygotic/somatic embryogenesis, genetic transformation, somatic hybridisation and cybridisation, production of disease free plants, industrial production of secondary metabolites, and biodiversity conservation. Further, a chapter hos been added on intellectual property rights of new plants, products or processes. developed through biotechnological and conventional processes. This book should continue to be useful to students, teachers, researchers, plant propagators, and industrialists like previous edition as acclaimed in reviews of that edition.

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