Regeneration of plants, vegetative propagation and cloning; Haploids; Cytology, Cytogenetics and plant breeding; Protoplasts, somatic hybridization and genetic engineering; Tissue culture and plant pathology; Cell culture and secondary ...

This manual provides all relevant protocols for basic and applied plant cell and molecular technologies, such as histology, electron microscopy, cytology, virus diagnosis, gene transfer and PCR.

The purpose of this book is to provide the advances in plant in vitro culture as related to perennial fruit crops and medicinal plants. Basic principles and new techniques, now available, are presented in detail.

The editors trust that this collection of papers will stimu~ late interest and research in the tissue culture and improvement of crop plants everywhere. v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The symposium from which the papers in this book are drawn was held ...