Week 6: Organogenesis
Course Material
- Week 1: Plant Tissue Culture-An Introduction
- Week 2: Cellular Totipotency, differentiation and de-differentiation
- Week 3: Selection of a suitable explant material in different plant groups
- Week 4: Selection of a suitable explant material (surface sterilization methods of different plants)
- Week 5: Initiation and maintenance of callus cultures
- Week 6: Organogenesis
- Week 7: Somatic embryogenesis
- Week 8: Micropropagation (History, importance and uses)
- Week 9: Mid Term Examinations
- Week 10: Micropropagation (Techniques, problems and their possible solutions)
- Week 11: Micropropagation (contamination, types and preventive measures)
- Week 12: Role of Somaclonal variation in crop improvement
- Week 13: Importance of somacolonal variation and an introduction to Cell suspension cultures
- Week 14: Cell suspension cultures (method and importance)
- Week 15: Isolation, purification and culture of plant protoplasts
- Week 16: Role of plant protoplasts in crop improvement
- Week 17: Production of pathogen-free plants using tissue culture techniques
- Week 18: Final Term examinations
- Chapters 18
- Department Botany
- Teacher
Dr. Aamir Ali
