Publisher's Synopsis
Plant cell culture techniques are used increasingly in basic research for plant exploitation in industry, including genetic engineering and micropropagation, and also from a crucial element in the new transgenic technology.;This new edition covers a wide range of methods central to the exploitation of plant cell cultures in fundamental and applied research. Thoroughly revised, it retains the combination of giving and explaining the general principles involved with the concise description of specific protocols, plus an appeal to a broad readership, that made the first edition so successful.;This book is intended for postgraduate researchers, lecturers and industrial and biotechnology researchers in plant sciences.