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Molecular Basis of Heritable Tissue Culture-induced Variation in Plants

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Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement

Part of the book series: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture ((PSBA,volume 32))

Abstract

Plant tissue culture techniques are used extensively in the propagation of ornamental and horticultural plants, in biochemical and molecular studies of plant cellular processes, and in plant transformation protocols. Genetic identity among cells or plants is usually desired or assumed in these experiments. However, the tissue culture process does not always produce clonal cells or plants, and often results in numerous morphological changes (reviewed in Sunderland, 1973; D’Amato, 1977, 1985; Bayliss, 1980; Larkin and Scowcroft, 1981, 1983; Orton, 1984; Ahloowalia, 1986; Larkin, 1987; Lee and Phillips, 1988; Sun and Zheng, 1990; Peschke and Phillips, 1992; Kaeppler and Phillips, 1993a).

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Kaeppler, S.M., Phillips, R.L., Olhoft, P. (1998). Molecular Basis of Heritable Tissue Culture-induced Variation in Plants. In: Jain, S.M., Brar, D.S., Ahloowalia, B.S. (eds) Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9125-6_23

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