Encapsulation and Synthetic Seed Technology
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 298
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant breeding; propagation through in vitro tissue culture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Synthetic seed technology, initially proposed by Murashige in 1977 as a clonal propagation method based on somatic embryo encapsulation, has since evolved and improved. In fact, the definition of synthetic seed, or synseed, has changed over the last few decades, considering for encapsulation any type of vegetative propagules, as long as they can be comparable to seeds and can give rise to complete plantlets (conversion). These changes in the synthetic seed definition have allowed us to enormously widen the potentialities of this technology that have become the solution of many problems of modern agriculture. Indeed, several are the areas, increasingly interconnected, in which encapsulation and synthetic seed technology has acquired a key role: from plant mass propagation to germplasm short- and long-term preservation, without forgetting its suitability for plant material exchange and its supporting role in plant breeding.
This Special issue’s aim is to give an update on the advancements that have been made in encapsulation and synthetic seed technology in recent years, focusing on new applications and prospects.
Prof. Dr. Benedetta Chiancone
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Micheli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- encapsulation
- germplasm conservation
- micropropagation
- synthetic seed
- vitro-derived plant propagules
