Somatic Embryogenesis and Synthetic Seed II (Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry)

Thirty-four chapters deal with the induction of somatic embryogenesis in various cereals and grasses; vegetables and fruits; legumes and oilseed crops; ornamental and medicinal plants. The plants covered are wheat, rice, maize, rye, oat, fescue, ryegrass, orchard grass, bluestem grass, sugarcane; asparagus, celery, chicory, coriander, cucumber, okra, carrot, banana; cotton, peanut, soybean, Limnanthes, Sinapis; Arabidopsis, Bellevalia, Brimeura, Dendrophthos, Fagopyrum, Ranunculus, Rumex, Freesia, Hemerocallis, Coptis, Panax, and Rauwolfia.
The book is of interest to advanced students, teachers, and researchers in botany, horticulture, plant breeding, tissue culture, and general plant biotechnology, and also to those involved in micropropagation.