Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology: Bridging Fundamental Research and Global Challenges
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 163
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Interests: horticultural crops; genomics; tissue culture; molecular biology; germplasm; somatic embryogenesis
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Interests: genomics and biotechnology; plant tissue culture; non-coding RNA; molecular biology; somatic embryogenesis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant tissue culture has long been a cornerstone of plant biotechnology, which offers powerful tools for propagation, genetic improvement, conservation, and phytochemical production. Recent developments in molecular biology, omics technologies, and genome editing have further expanded the potential of in vitro culture systems, enabling unprecedented precision and efficiency in plant research and the industrial applications of plants.
This Special Issue aims to bring together recent advances and innovative approaches in plant tissue culturing that cover a wide range of species and applications. We invite original research articles and comprehensive reviews on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- In vitro propagation and micropropagation of economically or ecologically important plants;
- Somatic embryogenesis, organogenesis, and callus cultures;
- Plant regeneration systems for genetic transformation and genome editing;
- Secondary metabolite production in plant cell and tissue cultures;
- Protoplast culture, fusion, and synthetic seed technology;
- Tissue culture-based conservation of rare or endangered species;
- Mechanisms of in vitro morphogenesis within physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genomics, etc.;
- Challenges and solutions for scaling up tissue culture for commercial production.
This Special Issue seeks to serve as a platform on which researchers can showcase both the fundamental and applied aspects of plant tissue culture, contributing to sustainable agriculture, conservation biology, and bioindustry.
We warmly invite you to contribute your latest findings to this exciting Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Zhongxiong Lai
Prof. Dr. Yuling Lin
Prof. Dr. Yuqiong Guo
Prof. Dr. Xu XuHan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant cell culture
- plant tissue culture
- transcriptomics
- genome/gene editing
- cryopreservation
- CRISPR
- somatic embryogenesis
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