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 …

The instability of in vitro cultures may cause genetic and epigenetic changes in crops called
somaclonal variations. Sometimes, these changes produce beneficial effects; for example …

Plants are constantly faced with biotic or abiotic stress, which affects their growth and
development. Yield reduction due to biotic and abiotic stresses on economically important …

Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic metal for all living forms including plants. It enters plants
through roots from soil or soil solution. It is considered as one of the most eminent examples …

Plant tissue culture (PTC) has immensely contributed in the field of science for the last 100
years, particularly, in the latter half of the 20th century after the discovery of somatic …

Sugarcane breeding, while key to continued improvement of pest and disease resistance
and to increasing sucrose and biomass yields, is constrained by the length of time taken to …

We evaluated transgenic lines of sugarcane modified with the barley chitinase class-II gene
to create resistance against the red rot causative agent Colletotrichum falcatum Went. Local …

Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is one of the most important field crops grown in the
tropics and sub-tropics. More than half of the world's sugar is derived from sugar cane …

In the present investigation, an attempt was made to develop Fusarium yellows resistant
plants of ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.) var. Himgiri using in vitro mutagenesis and …