Integration of Nanotechnology in Plant Tissue Culture

Current Nanoscience ◽

10.2174/1573413717666211015115351 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 ◽

Author(s):

Rachana Singh ◽

Shadab Ahamad

Keyword(s):

Tissue Culture ◽

Plant Tissue Culture ◽

Plant Tissue ◽

Positive Response ◽

Genetic Manipulation ◽

Plant Biology ◽

Biologically Active ◽

Germplasm Preservation ◽

Microbial Contaminants ◽

Disease Free

: In the field of plant biology, tissue culture is having colossal applications, for example, the production of disease-free plants and their mass multiplication, germplasm preservation, genetic manipulation to get improved variety as well as the production of biologically active compounds. The integration of nanotechnology and application of nanoparticles (NPs) has shown a positive response in the elimination of microbial contaminants and induction of callus, somatic embryogenesis, organogenesis, production of secondary metabolites, and genetic transformation. This paper aims to highlight some of the recent advancements that came possible through the implementation of nanotechnology in the field of plant tissue culture and also discusses both positives and negatives aspects associated with NPs in plant tissue culture. The prospects through the involvement of recent innovations of nanotechnology such as dendrimers, quantum dots, and carbon nanotubes are also proposed.

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Back to the roots Experiments in plant tissue culture. By J. H. Dodds and L. W. Roberts. New York: Cambridge University Press. 178 pp. $29.50-cloth; $10.95-paper. Videotape available from Dr. John Dodds, Department of Plant Biology, University of Birmingham, P. O. Box 363, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England, in the following forms: VHS, BETAMAX, U-MATIC

Cell ◽

10.1016/0092-8674(82)90041-1 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 334-335

Author(s):

R Shields

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Tissue Culture ◽

Plant Tissue Culture ◽

Plant Tissue ◽

Plant Biology ◽

Cambridge University

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International exchange of disease-free citrus clones by means of tissue culture

Outlook on Agriculture ◽

10.1177/003072707700900402 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 155-159 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

J Button

Keyword(s):

Tissue Culture ◽

Plant Breeding ◽

Plant Tissue Culture ◽

Plant Tissue ◽

International Exchange ◽

Nutrient Elements ◽

Plant Organs ◽

Aseptic Culture ◽

Economic Use ◽

Disease Free

Aseptic culture of plant organs, tissues, cells and protoplasts has contributed much towards an understanding of the functions of nutrient elements, vitamins and hormones in processes of growth and differentiation. Probably the most important economic use to which plant tissue culture has been put so far is in the propagation of plants and the elimination of virus and other diseases from valuable clones, thus facilitating the risk-free interchange of plant breeding material.

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Plant cell biotechnology and agriculture: impacts and perspectives

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.1985.0109 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 310 (1144) ◽

pp. 215-220 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Tissue Culture ◽

Plant Tissue Culture ◽

Plant Tissue ◽

Genetic Manipulation ◽

Traditional Practice ◽

Important Species ◽

Large Numbers ◽

Commercially Important ◽

Whole Plants ◽

Further Development

Methods of cell and tissue culture, together with the regeneration of whole plants, are now routine for many plant species and are rapidly becoming key tools in the further development of agriculture and horticulture. At the base of the technology lies the ability to produce large numbers of identical (cloned) plants far more rapidly than with traditional practice. A number of commercially important species, including strawberries, tomatoes, oil palms, Douglas firs and orchids are already being produced in large numbers through tissue culture. A further dimension is provided by techniques of protoplast-fusion-somatichybridization and genetic manipulation. Harnessed to methods of automated mass propagation it should be possible to screen for, and develop much more swiftly, new commercially important varieties than was possible hitherto with conventional plant breeding approaches. In spite of good progress in many aspects of plant tissue culture there is, however, much to be learned about the nature of the system. Techniques of plant tissue culture are by no means yet generally applicable.

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