Tissue Culture and its Genetic Aspect in Forestry Biomass Production

Abstract

Plant tissue culture term is used for protoplast, cell, tissue and organ culture under aseptic conditions. Haberlandt (1902) put forth a hypothesis of "totipotency" of plant cells that single cell can give rise to a complete plant Since then there has been a anormous intenst in the possible uses and application of in-vitro techniques. The main aim of clonal prapagation is to establish plants that are uniform and of improved quality he demand for wood products fuel and tree fodder is expected to increase by many folds in the near future and so is true for the qualifY planting material. Thus, there is a need to evolve efficient new techniques for supplying improved planting material with the speed of increasing demands tissue culture is one such technique which shows promise and its use in forestry should be exploited, because one of its longest established uses is as an efficient, safe and often economical method of plant propagation Some of the main features and achievements of tissue culture are reported in this paper.