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Acclaimed since its first appearance as the most practical guide to plant tissue culture and widely adopted as a textbook, this standard work is now even better. This expanded edition introduces new developments in biotechnology, such as genetic engineering and cell culture. It provides detailed recipes for propagating plants from more than 30 families. It explains clearly how to set up a propagating laboratory, from a hobbyist's kitchen to an elaborate commercial enterprise.

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Product Description: This manual comprises a range of techniques for research workers in the fields of cell and molecular biology, physiology, plant breeding and propagation, and genetic engineering. Both applied and more fundamental uses of cell, tissue and organ culture are covered, and the ring-binder design allows the manual to be updated regularly with supplementary chapters...read more

Product Description: Plant tissue culture has a long history, dating back to the work of Gottlieb Haberlandt and others at the end of the 19th century, but the associated concepts and techniques have reached a level of usefulness and application which has never been greater...read more

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Product Description: This manual comprises a broad range of techniques of value to research workers in the fields of cell and molecular biology, physiology, plant breeding and propagation, and genetic engineering.

Product Description: In this third edition the authors have written a guide to the essentials of plant tissue culture. The book takes the reader through a graded series of experimental protocols and provides an introductory review of each topic. There are discussions of aseptic techniques, and nutritional components of media...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Designed to aid biotechnologists, botanists, agricultural scientists and students of the life sciences, this reference manual provides an alphabetical listing and detailed explanations of 1500 terms encountered in research literature on plant tissue culture.