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In continuation of Somaclonal Variation and Crop Improvement I (1990), this volume is comprised of twenty-four chapters dealing with somaclonal variants showing resistance to salt/drought, herbicides, viruses, Alternaria, Fusarium, Glomerella, Verticillium, Phytophthora, fall armyworm, etc. in a number of plants of economic importance.
It is divided into two sections:
Section I. Somaclonal Variation in Agricultural Crops: wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, potato, tomato, Lotus, Stylosanthes, banana, strawberry, citrus, colt cherry. Section II. Somaclonal Variation in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Atropa, Carthamus, Hypericum, Lavatera, Nicotiana, Primula, Rauwolfia, Scilla, and Zinnia. This book will be of great assistance to research workers, teachers, and advanced students of plant pathology, tissue culture, pharmacy, horticulture, and especially plant breeding.
List of contents
Section I Somaclonal Variation in Agricultural Crops - Cereals, Potato, Fruits, Legumes.- 1.1 In Vitro Production of Fusarium-Resistant Wheat Plants.- 1.2 In Vitro Production of Male Sterile Rice Plants.- 1.3 Release of the Rice Variety Dama Developed by Haploid Somaclone Breeding.- 1.4 Somaclonal Variation for Fusarium Tolerance in Maize.- 1.5 In Vitro Production of Fall Army worm (Spodoptera frugiperda)-Resistant Maize and Sorghum Plants.- 1.6 Somaclonal Variation in Sorghum.- 1.7 In Vitro Production of Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans)-Resistant Potato Plants.- 1.8 In Vitro Production of Verticillium dahliae-Resistant Potato Plants.- 1.9 Somaclonal Variation for Salt Tolerance in Tomato and Potato.- 1.10 Somaclonal Variation in Lotus corniculatus L. (Birdsfoot Trefoil).- 1.11 Somaclonal Variation in Stylosanthes Species.- 1.12 Somaclonal Variation in Banana and Plantain (Musa Species).- 1.13 Somaclonal Variation for Resistance to Fusariumand Glomerella-Caused Diseases in Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa).- 1.14 In Vitro Selection for Salt Tolerance in Citrus Rootstocks.- 1.15 In Vitro Selection for Salt/Drought Tolerance in Colt Cherry (Prunus avium x pseudocerasus).- Section II Somaclonal Variation in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.- II. 1 In Vitro Induction of Herbicide Resistance in Atropa belladonna.- 11.2 In Vitro Induction of Resistance to Alternaria Leaf Blight Disease in Carthamus tinctorius L.(Safflower).- 11.3 Somaclonal Variation in Hypericum perforatum (St.John's Wort).- 11.4 Somaclonal Variation in Lavatera Species.- 11.5 Tobacco Somaclones Resistant to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus.- 11.6 Somaclonal Variation in Primula.- 11.7 Somaclonal Variation in Rauwolfia.- 11.8 Somaclonal Variation in Scilla scilloides Complex.- 11.9 Somaclonal Variation in Zinnia.
