CONTENTS:- 1. Introduction 2. Plant Tissue Culture 3. Plant Cytogenetics: A Re-birth in 21st Century 4. Transgenics: An Emerging Approach 5. Molecular Cytogenetics in Plant Improvement 6. Identification of Polytene Chromosomes 7. Cytogenetic Techniques 8. Cell and Tissue Culture and Mutation Induction 9. Cryopreservation of Plant Tissues 10. Mutation Induction in Musa 11. Usefulness of Embryogenic Cell Suspension Cultures 12. Analysis of Induced Mutants 13. Biotechnology and in Vitro Mutagenesis 14. Plant Improvement through Gamma Irradiation 15. Genetic Mechanism, Frequency and Application 16. Plant Protoplasts 17. Molecular Understanding of Mycosphaerella
DESCRIPTION
Plant Cytogenetics, Breeding and Evolution plant cytogenetics comprises a topic of broad interest and increasing importance in plant science. In keeping with the exciting advances in plant genetics and genomics, we believe that a comprehensive and up-to-date reference on plant cytogenetics would be of great interest and value for researchers, instructors, and students with interests in genetics, plant biology, and plant genomics. The field of cytogenetics is currently expanding at the same fast pace that genome technologies are moving but no reliable reference exists that captures the current state of progress. The goal then of the proposed reference is to provide a scholarly and timely review of plant cytogenetics that covers traditional aspects of pant cytogenetics together with the emerging and exciting new areas of genomics, epigenetics, evolution and chromosome engineering. Advances in plant genetics and genomics are driving major changes in how we view fundamental concepts such as gene regulation, genome organization, and plant evolution.
