PLANT TISSUE CULTURE

Introduction
INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS IT?

USES

CASE STUDY 1:
Anther culture for cold hardiness

CASE STUDY 2:
Somaclones  for disease resistance

CASE STUDY 3
Demonstration of tissue culture for teaching

PUBLICATIONS


Plant tissue culture, the growth of plant cells outside an intact plant, is a technique essential in many areas of the plant sciences. Cultures of individual or groups of plant cells, and whole organs, contribute to understanding both fundamental and applied science.

It relies on maintaining plant cells in aseptic conditions on a suitable nutrient medium. The culture can be sustained as a mass of undifferentiated cells for an extended period of time, or regenerated into whole plants. 

Designing a strategy to culture cells from a plant for the first time can still seem like a matter of trial and error, and luck. However, the commercial production of valuable horticulture crops by micropropagation, which relies on tissue culture, shows that it exists in the routine, as well as experimental, world.

In the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool, we have experience over many years with the techniques and applications of plant cell culture.

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