Floriculture: Role of Tissue Culture and Molecular Techniques

Today, floriculture is recognized as most remunerative profession with a much higher potential for returns per unit area than most fields and even some other horticultural crops. All over the world, the floricultural sector can nowadays be characterized as a sector experiencing rapid changes. Lack of correct information is one of the major constraints in the growth of floriculture industry. Recent advances in micropropagation and biotechnology offers new and exciting challenges for advancement of floriculture. There was necessary to compile worldwide activities on these subjects with special reference to their application on floricultural crops. This book “Floriculture : Role of Tissue Culture and Molecular Techniques”contains 13 articles on different areas of tissue culture and molecular techniques with special emphasis of their application on floricultural crops. The topic covers mass propagation of ornamentals using bioreactor and micropropagation, biochemical and molecular basis of flower senescence, in vitro mutagenesis, molecular characterization, viruses in ornamentals etc. The book is extremely well prepared and provides excellent information on emerging issues of tissue culture, bioreactor, molecular characterization, in vitro mutagenesis and biotechnology. It will serve further advance efforts towards the promotion of floriculture. The book will provide great opportunities for professional scientists, students, progressive floriculturist, exporters and for the industry people at large. The detail contents are : · Tailoring Carnation Genome for Long Vase-life Traits in Flowers · Tissue Culture and Biotechnology of Damask Rose · Mass Propagation of Ornamentals Using Bioreactor System, · Use of Tissue Culture Techniques to Develop Orchid Industry in Indonesia · Biochemical and Molecular Basis of Senescence and Abscission in Flowers - A Review · Improvement of Rose through in vitro Mutagenesis and its Molecular Characterization · Viruses of Ornamental Plants in India—Current Research Status and Future Prospects · Micro Propagation of Bulbous Ornamentals · Liquid Medium based Micropropagation of Monocotyledonous Ornamental Geophytes · In vitro Mutagenesis—An Effective Tool for Development of Salt-tolerant Line in Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat · Management of Chimera and in vitro Mutagenesis for Development of New Flower Colour/Shape and Chlorophyll Variegated Mutants in Chrysanthemum · Role of Micropropagation for Commercial Floriculture · In vitro Adventitious Bud Techniques as a Tool in Creation of New Chrysanthemum Cultivars