In Vitro Systems and Virus Elimination in Horticultural Plants and Rare Endangered Species

Dear Colleagues,

In vitro systems today offer the possibility to propagate, preserve, and acclimatize cultivars and species of different horticultural plants, which are valuable as everyday food, used for cosmetics, medicine, etc. Tissue culture is a complex range of methods used in plant development for isolated plant cells, tissues, or organs cultured in different conditions. To obtain healthy plant material, different methods of virus elimination are used, such as chemotherapy, thermotherapy and cryotherapy. The methods of in vitro regeneration depend on different biotic and abiotic factors. During the study of this process, it is incredibly important to investigate the physiology, biochemistry, and anatomomorphology characteristics of cultured plants, organs, and tissues. Genomics provides us with useful information on virus diagnostics and open mechanisms of plant development at different stages of propagation and adaptation. Tissue culture has developed useful biotechnological approaches to achieve horticulture and plant biodiversity conservation.

The purpose of this Special Issue titled “In Vitro Systems and Virus Elimination in Horticultural Plants and Rare Endangered Species” is to present results in plant biotechnology, plant virology, and plant genomics using traditional and new methods, and perspectives of in vitro propagation and conservation that have been successful in several fields of tissue culture applied to horticultural and wild plants.

Prof. Dr. Irina Mitrofanova
Prof. Dr. Kanchit Thammasiri
Prof. Dr. Atanas Pavlov
Guest Editors

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• clonal micropropagation
• organogenesis/somatic embryogenesis
• plant cleaning up and obtain virus- and viroid-free cultivars and forms
• genomic of virus diagnostics, plant regeneration, conservation, and acclimatization
• anatomomorphological, physiological, and biochemical aspects of plant propagation
• plant conservation
• plant acclimatization ex vitro and in vivo

Title: In Vitro Plant Tissue Cultivation: A Tool for Viral Clearance
Authors: Natane Amaral Miranda
Affiliation: Departamento de Silvicultura, Universidade Federal Rural Do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil