Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription or Fee Access

Plant Tissue Culture from Various Methods

Aishwarya Singh

Abstract


Plant tissue culture is the process of growing seeds, tissues, meristem, tissues, cells, or protoplasts on such a chemically defined synthetic nutritive material in sterilized and regulated sunlight, heat, and moisture. The fertiliser, usually called as culture solution, is essential in this method since it contains several plant nutrients in the form of agarose, and also phytohormones plant nutrients. Ornamental plants such as orchids, dahlias, carnations, and chrysanthemums are increasingly being grown using the tissue culture technique. Tissue culture is referred to as micro propagation since only a small portion of plant material is used. Some little bit of plant tissue is removed from the plant developmental centre or top and placed on a sterile jelly that contains nutrients and phytohormones. Hormones induce plant tissue cells to grow rapidly, resulting in a huge number of cells that form a 'callus,' a formless lump of substance. The callus is then immersed in a jelly containing plant hormones that promote the callus to root. The callus is then placed on a jelly that contains multiple hormones that drive the formation of new shoots, along with the callus's established roots. callus differentiates into miniature plantlets, which have roots and shoots. In this approach, many small plantlets are generated from a few starting plant cells or tissue. Plants are then planted into pots or the earth, where they can mature into full-fledged plants.


Full Text:

PDF

References


Islam, M. M., Ahmed, M., and Mahaldar, D. (2005). In vitro callus induction and plant regeneration in seed explants of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Res. J. Agri. Biol. Sci. 1, 72–75.

Mathe, C., Mosolygo, A., Suranyi, G., Beke, A., Demeter, Z., Toth, V. R., et al. (2012). Genotype and explants-type dependent morphogenesis and silicon response of common reed (Phragmites australis) tissue cultures. Aquat. Bot. 97, 57–63. doi: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2011.11.005

Sivanesan, I., and Jeong, B. R. (2014). Silicon promotes adventitious shoot regeneration and enhances salinity tolerance of Ajuga multiflora Bunge by altering activity of antioxidant enzyme. Sci. World J. 2014, 10 doi: 10.1155/2014/521703

Dodds JH, Roberts LW. Experiments in plant tissue culture. International Potato Center; 1985 Oct 31.

Gamborg OL, Wetter LR. Plant tissue culture methods. Saskatoon: National research council of Canada. Prairie regional laboratory, 1975.; 1975.

Thorpe TA. History of plant tissue culture. Molecular biotechnology. 2007 Oct;37(2):169-80.

Hossain MM, Sharma M, da Silva JA, Pathak P. Seed germination and tissue culture of Cymbidium giganteum Wall. ex Lindl. Scientia Horticulturae. 2010 Feb 2;123(4):479-87.

Ahloowalia BS. Plant Regeneration from Callus Culture in Wheat 1. Crop Science. 1982 Mar;22(2):405-10.

Bridgen MP. A review of plant embryo culture. Hort Science. 1994 Nov 1;29(11):1243-6.

Farnham MW. Doubled-haploid broccoli production using anther culture: effect of anther source and seed set characteristics of derived lines. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 1998 Jan 1;123(1):73-7.

Narayanaswami S, Norstog K. Plant embryo culture. The Botanical Review. 1964 Oct;30(4):587-628.

Raghavan V, Srivastava PS. Embryo culture. In Experimental embryology of vascular plants 1982 (pp. 195-230). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Sopory SK, Munshi M. Anther culture. In vitro haploid production in higher plants. 1996:145-76.

Germana MA. Anther culture for haploid and doubled haploid production. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC). 2011 Mar;104(3):283-300.

Thompson JA, Abdullah R, Cocking EC. Protoplast culture of rice (Oryza sativa L.) using media solidified with agarose. Plant Science. 1986 Jan 1;47(2):123-33.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.