Plant Tissue Culture and Its Agricultural Applications

Preface Acknowledgments Editors' NoteI Setting the Scene 1 The Tissue Culture RevolutionII Morphogenesis and Clonal Propagation 2 Control and Expression of Morphogenesis in Culture 3 Putative Auxin Receptors in Tobacco Callus 4 A Role for Ethylene Biosynthesis in Adventitious Bud Formation on Bulb-Scale Tissue of Lilium Speciosum 5 Vernalization Studies in Lolium 6 Problems and Prospects in the In Vitro Propagation of Herbaceous Plants 7 Plant Regeneration from Root Callus in the Forage Grass Lolium Multiflorum 8 Propagation of Bulbs from Floral Stem Tissues 9 Plant Regeneration in the Forage Legumes 10 Habit Differences in African Violets Produced from Leaf Cuttings, and In Vitro from Leaf Discs and Recycled Axenic Leaves 11 Potato Tuber Formation In Vitro 12 An Overview of the In Vitro Propagation of Woody Plantsa and Plantation Crops 13 Meristem Tip Culture of Musa: Histomorphological Studies of Shoot Bud Proliferation 14 Adventitious Regeneration In Cassava 15 Progress Towards the In Vitro Clonal Propagation of Eucalyptus Grandis 16 Vitrification In Sitka Spruce Cultures 17 Micropropagation in the Commercial Environment 18 In Vitro Hardening and Acclimatization of Tissue Culture Plants 19 The Application of Micropropagation to Seed Potato Production in Northern Scotland 20 Constraints Upon the Use of Micropropagation for the Scottish Strawberry Certification Scheme 21 Economics of Mass Propagation of Papaya Through Tissue CultureIII Plant Health and Germplasm Storage 22 Production and Indexing of Disease-Free Plants 23 Elimination of Viruses from Tissue Cultures in the Presence of Antiviral Chemicals 24 Rapid In Vitro Propagation of Virus-Indexed Potatoes for Seed Production 25 Micropropagation is an Aid in Quarantine Procedures for Potato Material 26 In Vitro Approaches to the Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources 27 In Vitro Conservation of Aroid Germplasm at Reduced Temperatures and Under Osmotic Stress 28 Growth Limitation for the Conservation of Pear Genotypes 29 In Vitro Propagation and Germplasm Storage of Cinchona 30 Embryo Culture and Cryopreservation For The Conservation of Genetic Resources of Species With Recalcitrant Seed IV Genetic Improvement 31 In Vitro Culture in Plant Breeding 24 Rapid In Vitro Propagation of Virus-Indexed Potatoes for Seed Production 26 In Vitro Approaches to the Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources 27 In Vitro Conservation of Aroid Germplasm at Reduced Temperatures and Under Osmotic Stress 28 Growth Limitation for the Conservation of Pear Genotypes 29 In Vitro Propagation and Germplasm Storage of Cinchona 30 Embryo Culture and Cryopreservation for the Conservation of Genetic Resources of Species with Recalcitrant Seed V Genetic Improvement 31 In Vitro Culture in Plant Breeding 32 The Ddevelopment of Protoplast Systems Suitable for 33 Protoplast Culture and the use of Apomixis In Vitro for the Regeneration of Fruit Plants 34 Cell And Protoplast Culture of Rice 35 The Use of Escherichia Colispheroplasts: A Possible Approach for the Introduction of Foreign Genes Into Crop Plants 36 Pollen, Ovule And Embryo Culture as Tools in Plant Breeding 37 Embryoid and Plant Production from Cultured Barley Anthers 38 Induction of Haploid Plants of Populus Species 39 Conversion In Vitro of Cucumis Metuliferus And C. Metuliferus X C. Anguria Embryos 40 Culture of Ovules and Embryos from an Incompatible Cross in the Genus Arachis 41 Mutation and Tissue Culture 43 Spontaneous and Induced Variation in Tissue Cultures and Regenerated Plants of Breadwheat 44 Salt Stress: Resistance Mechanisms and In Vitro Selection Procedures 45 Selection For Herbicide Resistance in Tissue Cultures of Fragaria and Nicotian AVI Focus on the Future 46 The Present Development and Future of Plant Cell and Tissue Culture in Agriculture, Forestry And Horticulture List of Participants Species IndexSubject Index