The advancements made in tissue culture techniques has made it possible to regenerate
various horticultural species in vitro as micropropagation protocols for commercial scale …

Plant tissue culture has become one of the fundamental tools of plant science research. It is
extensively employed in the production, conservation and improvement of plant resources …

Biotic and abiotic stresses impose a major threat to agriculture. Therefore, the efforts to
develop stress-tolerant plants are of immense importance to increase crop productivity. In …

Epigenetic mechanisms are highly dynamic events that modulate gene expression. As more
accurate and powerful tools for epigenetic analysis become available for application in a …

In vitro cell and tissue-based systems have tremendous potential in fundamental research
and for commercial applications such as clonal propagation, genetic engineering and …

Plant tissue culture techniques have been extensively employed in commercial
micropropagation to provide year-round production. Tissue culture regenerants are not …

The plant genome can respond rapidly and dynamically to stress in a manner that
overcomes the restrictions of a highly stable DNA sequence. Abiotic stresses such as …

Plants regenerated from in vitro cultures possess an array of genetic and epigenetic
changes. This phenomenon is known as 'somaclonal variation'and the frequency of …

Background In traditional vine areas, the production should present a typicity that partly
depends on the grapevine variety. Therefore, vine improvement is considered difficult …

Embryogenic suspensions that involve extensive cell division are risky in respect to genome
and epigenome instability. Elevated frequencies of somaclonal variation in embryogenic …