Principles of Plant Breeding (2+1)

Introduction

Plant Tissue Culture

Tissue culture

• It refers to growth of living plant tissues in a suitable culture medium.
• It is defined as a technique of growing plant tissues on synthetic medium under controlled and aseptic conditions.
G. Haberlandth: German plant physiologist is considered to be the father of plant tissue culture, who conceived the idea of Totipotancy in 1902.
Totipotancy: It is the ability of an individual cell or plant part to produce whole plant. The concept of tissue culture depends on totipotency.
Explant: They are the organs excised from plants such as roots, hypocotyls, cotyledons,