Applications of Plant Biotechnology and Tissue Culture Techniques for Plant Production and Food Security
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 10058
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh 33516, Egypt
Interests: acclimatization; bioreactors; biotechnology; hydroponics; morphogenesis; oxidative stress; plant tissue culture; secondary metabolites
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Interests: plant breeding; crop improvement; plant biotechnology; plant biology; food science; evolutionary biology; molecular biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing world population and demand of food, the scarcity of irrigation water and various environmental stresses are the major challenges in achieving food security. New plant biotechnology approaches, coupled with tissue culture techniques, are being employed to increase and improve the production of agronomical and horticultural crops and several herbs and medicinal plant species. The application of the plant tissue culture method facilitates genetic improvements, plant breeding and the production of diseases-free plants; reduces the costs of commercial production and rescues endemic, endangered plant species. The use of doubled haploid technologies (isolated microspore/anther and unpollinated ovule culture in vitro) greatly accelerates the breeding process and increases the genetic diversity. This Special Issue invites researchers to contribute their work on plant production and crop improvement using plant tissue culture and biotechnology methods.
Prof. Dr. Yaser Hassan Dewir
Dr. Katalin Magyar-Tábori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- acclimatization
- anther culture
- bioreactors
- doubled haploids
- food crops
- genetic transformation
- herbs and medicinal plants
- in vitro breeding
- in vitro grafting
- liquid culture systems
- micropropagation
- microspore culture
- morphogenesis
- mutations
- nano-particles
- organogenesis
- physiological disorders
- plant growth substances
- regeneration
- rooting
- rootstocks
- somatic embryogenesis
- stress tolerance and alleviation
- unpollinated ovule culture
- virus elimination
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