Plant Tissue Culture: How new varieties of crop plants are produced

This book provides a highly authoritative introduction to the promising and fast-advancing field of Plant Tissue Culture, examining the latest methods and technologies used in the Botany / Biotechnology industry to produce new varieties of crop plants. It helps readers understand the future of plant tissue culture, and how it aims to find solutions for millions of people suffering every year due to food shortages by producing new varieties of crop plants. In a world with an ever increasing population, and an unpredictable environment, especially in future decades, the use and development of such technologies is paramount to the future of mankind.