Step Wise Protocols for Somatic Embryogenesis of Important Woody Plants: Volume II

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Step Wise Protocols for Somatic Embryogenesis of Important Woody Plants: Volume II Editors: Pramod Gupta, Shri Mohan Jain Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Springer International Publishing AG
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Pages: 392 Illustrations and other contents: 99 Illustrations, color; 17 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 392 p. 116 illus., 99 illus. in color. Language: English ISBN: 9783319790862 Categories: , , , , , , , , ,

World population is increasing at an alarming rate and this has resulted in increasing tremendously the demand for tree products such as wood for construction materials, fuel and paper, fruits, oils and medicines etc. This has put immense pressure on the world’s supplies of trees and raw material to industry and will continue to do so as long as human population continues to grow. Also, the quality of human diet, especially nutritional components, is adversely affected due to limited genetic improvement of most of fruit trees. Thus there is an immediate need to increase productivity of trees. Improvement has been made through conventional breeding methods, however, conventional breeding is very slow due to long life cycle of trees. A basic strategy in tree improvement is to capture genetic gain through clonal propagation. Clonal propagation via organogenesis is being used for the production of selected elite individual trees. However, the methods are labour intensive, costly, and produce low volumes. Genetic gain can now be captured through somatic embryogenesis. Formation of embryos from somatic cells by a process resembling zygotic embryogenesis is one of the most important features of plants. In 1958, Reinert in Germany and Steward in USA independently reported somatic embryogenesis in carrot cultures. Since then, tremendous progress in somatic embryogenesis of woody and non-woody plants has taken place. It offers a potentially large-scale propagation system for superior clones.

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