Low Cost Tissue Culture : An Overview

By : Debasis Chakraborty , T. Janakiram , S. K. Datta

Page No: 181-199

Abstract
Plant tissue culture is a very important technology which is used for production of large scale quality planting materials of selected novel high yielding varieties to boost production. The technique has certain demerits like high production cost which have limited the use and exploitation at industrial level. The technology is capital, labor and energy intensive. Low cost tissue culture technology may be considered as a high priority in agriculture, horticulture, forestry and floriculture of any country. Various strategies have been adopted by different researchers intelligently and seriously to simplify various operations involved in in vitro propagation to reduce the costs without compromising the quality of the micropropagules and plants. This article reviews the recent advancement in the development and utilization of different cost effective methods/options by improving process efficiency and better utilization of resources.

Authors :
S. K. Datta : DBT-NER Visiting Research Professor, Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar; Retd. Sci.’G’, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow; Ex CSIR Emeritus Scientist, Bose Institute, Kolkata.
Debasis Chakraborty : Genetics and Molecular Biology Div., CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India,
T. Janakiram : Assistant Director General (Hort. Sci), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Horticultural Science Division, Room No. 423, Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan - II, Pusa, New Delhi- 110012