Embryo and Tissue Culture for Crop Improvement, Especially of Perennials, Germplasm Conservation and Exchange - Relevance to Developing Countries
| dc.contributor.author | Iyer, R.D. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-19T08:46:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-06-19T08:46:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1981 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Plant tissue and organ culture techniques are increasingly applied for the improvement of economically important crops in the developing countries. Work done at this Institute on coconut spathe tissue and embryo culture, as well as turmeric tissue culture for rapid multiplication of superior clones, is briefly described. The application of tissue and organ culture in other crops, especially the perennials, like agricultural plantation crops, forest trees and horticultural plants is briefly reviewed with regard to (a) the conservation and international exchange of germplasm, especially of bulky seeded materials like coconut and vegetatively propagated ones like tapioca, potato and certain fruit trees; (b) clonal multiplication of elite materials; (c) induction of haptoids; (d) induction of mutations and rare recombinations and (e) embryo culture. The rapid advances made in tissue, cell and organ culture hold great promise for their immediate application to problems in the developing countries where bulk of the farm holdings for most crops fall below one hectare. Hence, any advance towards improving the yield or disease resistance of the planting materials, made through the use of tissue culture techniques is sure to benefit the farmers. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Proc. COSTED Symp. on Tissue Culture of Economically Important Plants, Singapore, 1981, Ed. A.N. Rao | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3097 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.title | Embryo and Tissue Culture for Crop Improvement, Especially of Perennials, Germplasm Conservation and Exchange - Relevance to Developing Countries | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |