Advances in Orphan Crop and Non-model Plant Transformation and Tissue Culture
A special issue of Crops (ISSN 2673-7655).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 500
Special Issue Editor
2. VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: genome editing; CRISPR; base editors; phytohormones; stem cells; meristems; protoplasts; plant tissue culture; plant transformation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Together with the fast development of transgenesis and CRISPR-mediated gene editing, plant tissue culture methods have become increasingly important for generating engineering plants and for leveraging new breeding technologies in a wide range of crops.
Efficient protocols and methods have been developed for major crops and cultivars; however, methods in economically less important species have comparatively received less attention.
In this Special Issue, we aim at showing advances in the development of methods and technologies facilitating the manipulation, culture and regeneration of plant cells and tissues from a wide range of species. Reports with a focus on orphan crops and non-model plants will be of particular interest. Altogether, the comparison of methodologies between species will help draw common practices but also pinpoint key differences.
Topics appropriate to this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Protoplast isolation and transfection
- Protoplast regeneration
- Somatic embryogenesis
- Hairy root transformation
- Agrobacteriummediated transformation
- Immature embryos transformation
- Gold particle bombardment
- Tissue and cell culture
- Meristem culture
- Plant Cell Totipotency & Differentiation
- Somaclonal variation.
Dr. Christophe Gaillochet
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- callus
- regeneration
- Agrobacterium
- protoplasts
- meristem
- transgenesis
- tissue culture
- somatic embryogenesis
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