Cell and Tissue Culture in Field Crop Improvement: Proceedings of the Seminar 'Cell and Tissue Culture in Field Crop Improvement'. Held in Tsukuba, Japan on October 4-9, 1987

摘要

The use of cell and tissue culture for the identification and selection of useful variants at a cellular level has become one of the most powerful tools in modern plant breeding. The book is the Proceedings of the international seminar sponsored by the Food and Fertilizer Technology Center for the ASPAC Region and co-sponsored by the National Institute of Agrobiological Resources, and the Food and Agriculture Research and Development Association of Japan. The breeding of improved varieties is one of the most effective ways to help the small-scale farmer achieve higher and more stable yields. Not only do improved varieties make more efficient use of soil nutrients, they are often more resistant to disease, and give effective disease control without any increase in inputs such as chemical pesticides. Cell and tissue culture is likely to prove of great benefit, therefore, to farmers who cannot afford heavy investment into farm inputs, and who must make intensive use of a small area of land. The reports include such important topics as in vitro selection of resistant cells which can be regenerated into resistant plants, the use of haploidy, embryo culture, and the production of hybrids by protoplast fusion.