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Commercialization of Plant Somatic Embryogenesis

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Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants

Part of the book series: Forestry Sciences ((FOSC,volume 55))

Abstract

The phenomenon of inducing plant somatic embryogenesis (SE) in tissue culture was first discovered and reported four decades ago (Reinart, 1958; Steward et al., 1958). Since then, this technique has been successfully applied to over three hundred diverse species of plants ranging from herbaceous annuals and perennials to trees (Bajaj, 1995). Numerous reviews during the past decade have examined the technical challenges associated with scaling this technology to commercial production volumes (Cervelli and Seneratna, 1995; Heyerdahl et al., 1995; Walker, 1995), and the development of somatic embryo products and delivery systems (Gray et al., 1995; Kitto et al., 1995; Onishi et al., 1994). In spite of the focused concentration of academic and industrial efforts on these initiatives, commercial implementation of SE production systems to produce operational numbers of emblings remained an elusive goal (Cervelli and Seneratna, 1995) until just very recently (Grossnickle et al., 1997).

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Sutton, B.C.S., Polonenko, D.R. (1999). Commercialization of Plant Somatic Embryogenesis. In: Jain, S.M., Gupta, P.K., Newton, R.J. (eds) Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants. Forestry Sciences, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3032-7_11

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