Special Issue "Micropropagation Research: Current Applications, Prospects, and Challenges"
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2022) | Viewed by 5393
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant propagation and plant breeding; tissue culture techniques including micropropagation; micrografting; meristem tip culture and somatic embryogenesis; biology and physiology of adventitious rooting; breeding for resistance to biotic stress
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Interests: molecular mechanisms underlying plant plasticity upon abiotic stresses; the analysis of transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome through high-throughput platforms; plant ability to develop adventitious roots and somatic embryos as morphogenic responses upon external stimulus
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant micropropagation deals with the aseptic culture of plant cells, tissues, and organs, under controlled nutritional and environmental conditions. Apart from its importance on fundamental and applied research, plant micropropagation has in recent years attracted strong interest in the agronomical and industrial sectors. The development of systems allowing efficient vegetative propagation of horticultural and forest plant species, the ability to eliminate plant pathogens developing high-quality plant materials, and the production of economically valuable secondary metabolites are aspects that have contributed to the increased interest on micropropagation systems. In addition, micropropagation systems are considered the most efficient technology to assist plant breeding, not only through the possibility of exploiting somaclonal and gametoclonal variation but also because it allows plant production from a single cell, a fundamental aspect when genetic engineering approaches are followed in plant breeding. For all those reasons, plant micropropagation techniques have become an integral part of advances in plant science research.
Research areas may include, but are not limited, to the following:
• Advances on micropropagation systems (new protocols, new culture media, new light sources and laboratory equipment’s, for multiplication, rooting and acclimatization)
• In vitro commercial production (somatic embryogenesis, bioreactors, temporary immersion, robotics and automation systems)
• In vitro germplasm conservation (including cryopreservation and long-term storage protocols)
• In vitro techniques to support plant breeding (virus elimination, embryo rescue, dihaploidization, protoplast fusion, mutagenesis)
• In vitro co-culture systems (endophytes and mycorrhiza identification and applications)
Dr. Augusto Peixe
Dr. Hélia Cardoso
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- micropropagation
- cryopreservation
- embryo rescue
- somatic embryogenesis
- protoplasts
- plant regulators
- co-culture
- endophytes
- bioreactors
- automation