Do you wonder why orchid plants have only become generally available for purchase in the last few years? Tropical orchids are very difficult to grow from seeds outside of their natural environment.

Plant tissue culture has emerged as a vital tool for the controlled production of secondary metabolites – bioactive compounds that are of paramount importance in pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Exposure of plant tissue culture media to light from fluorescent bulbs changed the growth regulating properties of the media. The light caused ...

Sylvia Mitchell (left) is Head of the Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Research Group in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI; Mona, Jamaica). She founded this research ...

Scientists have developed simultaneous triploid and hexaploid varieties of Haemanthus albiflos by the application of endosperm culture, thus extending the use of this technique. Scientists at Hokkaido ...

Banana plants grow without seeds using methods like suckers and tissue culture. This is important for home gardeners seeking ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The disappearance of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) from cell-free liquid culture medium was followed in response to nutrient salts found in ...

Plant biologists have developed a method for growing transgenic and gene-edited plants that cuts the slow and expensive ...

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) has inaugurated a Training and Knowledge Transfer Building, a Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory and an Integrated Agri-Aquaculture System at its ...