Worldwide, many medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are still collected from the wild and
only a small fraction of them are exclusively sourced from cultivation. This practice when …

Romania has a relatively high diversity of plant species, including 3829 vascular and 979
non-vascular spontaneous plant taxa (species and subspecies). Due to uncontrolled …

In vitro techniques have numerous applications for collecting, propagation and conservation
of plant biodiversity. In vitro collecting techniques allow introducing in vitro under field …

Spanish territories contain many of the hot spots of plant biodiversity among European
countries. Most of the Spanish territory is found in the Mediterranean basin and in the …

Ornamental plants are produced mainly for their aesthetic value; thus, the propagation and
improvement of quality attributes such as leaf types, flower colour and fragrance, longevity …

There are thousands of plant species which occur in Europe only (Ozinga, 2005). These
endemic species can be considered as Europe's specific contributiqn to the Global …

This chapter provides a short discussion about the opportunity to cultivate in vitro plant
tissue of species which synthesize secondary metabolites of nutraceutical interest. The …

Plant tissue culture technique employed for the identification and isolation of bioactive
phytocompounds has numerous industrial applications. It provides potential benefits for …

In vitro techniques are very useful for conserving plant biodiversity, including (a) genetic
resources of recalcitrant seed and vegetatively propagated species,(b) rare and endangered …

The application of plant tissue cultures in fundamental and applied studies on various
biological species has been rapidly growing. The use of in vitro technology for commercial …