Commercial Scale Tissue Culture for Horticulture and Plantation Crops

Dr Shubhpriya Gupta, completed her Ph.D. in Botany from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. Currently, she is working as a PostDoctoral Researcher at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, and as a visiting Scientist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. She is the Founder and Director of Gustaden Manuscript Services, India. Her research field includes plant hormones, biostimulants, plant tissue culture, seed physiology, analytical chemistry, and biotechnology. She is the author/coauthor of 20 peer-reviewed articles, which have been published in ISI-rated journals. She is the review board editor of the South African Journal of Botany. She has received an Y1 (Young researcher) rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa in January 2022.Dr Preeti Chaturvedi, is Professor and Head, Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. She did her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Botany from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India. Her research interests include in vitro morphogenesis, conservation biology, bryophyte diversity, and bioprospecting. She has successfully developed micropropagation protocols for several high value medicinal plants viz., Aconitum balfourii, Picrorhiza kurroa, Centella asiatica, Polygonatum verticillatum, and Rheum emodii. She has 65 research publications to her credit in national and international journals of repute. She has completed four research projects on micropropagation of medicinal herbs including one on bioprospecting of bryophytes.

• Chapter 1. Improved sterilization techniques for successful in vitro micropropagation.- Chapter 2. Selection and preparation of explants for the clonal propagation of horticultural plants in plant factory systems.- Chapter 3. Use of alternative components in cost-effective media for mass production of clonal plants.- Chapter 4. Novel plant growth regulators in in vitro establishment of horticulture and plantation crops.- Chapter 5. Potential role and utilization of Piriformospora indica: fungal endophytes in commercial plant tissue culture.- Chapter 6. Application of biostimulants in establishing and acclimatizing in vitro-raised plants.- Chapter 7. Nanomaterials and plant tissue culture: Developmental path and contradictory facts.- Chapter 8. Somatic embryogenesis in cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.).- Chapter 9. Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration in horticultural crops.- Chapter 10. Prospect and commercial production of economically important plant mulberry (Morus sp.) towards the upliftment of rural economy.- Chapter 11. Assessing the genetic stability of in vitro raised plants.- Chapter 12. Improvement of plant survival and expediting acclimatization process.- Chapter 13. Evaluation of genetic stability of in vitro raised orchids using molecular based markers.- Chapter 14. Recent in-vitro propagation advances in Genus Paphiopedilum – Lady Slipper Orchids.