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Meristem and Shoot Tip Culture: Requirements and Applications

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Plant Cell and Tissue Culture

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Among the prevalent tissue culture techniques of agricultural and horticultural promise, meristem and shoot tip culture has been exploited at a much wider scale primarily due to its application in diverse areas such as rapid clonal multiplication of vegetatively propagated crop plants, virus elimination and germplasm preservation of both vegetatively and seed propagated crops (Kartha, 1981; 1986; George and Sherrington, 1984; Hussey, 1986), and more recently in the development of genetic transformation protocols for crop improvement through gene transfer (Ulian, 1988; Gould et al., 1991).

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