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Springer Science+Business Media Plant Cell Culture Protocols 2E by Felipe Vazquez- Flota Victor M. Loyola-Vargas
A comprehensive state-of-the-art collection of the most frequently used techniques for plant cell and tissue culture. Readily reproducible and extensively annotated the methods range from general methodologies such as culture induction growth and viability evaluation and contamination control to such highly specialized techniques as chloroplast transformation involving the laborious process of protoplast isolation and culture. Most of the protocols are currently used in the research programs of the authors or represent important parts of business projects aimed at the generation of improved plant materials. Two new appendices explain the principles for formulating culture media and the composition of the eight most commonly used media formulations and list more than