Tissue culture techniques are now becoming important tools of crop improvement and rapid
multiplication of selected clones. There has been considerable interest in applying these …

Somaclonal variations (SV) are genetic or epigenetic changes induced in plant cell and
tissue culture. Induction of somaclonal variation, is an alternate approach to conventional …

A comparative study was carried out to evaluate the field performance of meristem culture
plantlets and conventional setts as seed source of two commercially popular sugarcane …

Sugarcane variety Co 94012 is a new variety released in India through the use of
somaclonal variation. Significant differences were found in quantitative and qualitative …

Clonal fidelity of micropropagated material is important especially in polyploid plants like
sugarcane. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers were used to assess the …

VSI 434 is a somaclonal variant of sugarcane var. CoC 671 with high cane and sugar yield,
high sucrose content and moderately resistant to smut, grassy shoot and red rot diseases …

Sugarcane (Saccharum sp.) is one of the world's most commercial crops as it is the main
source of sucrose. Sugarcane breeding programs are concentrated to improve the sucrose …

A very rare generation of the somaclonal variation during the in vitro propagation of the
highly economically valuable medicinal plant Bacopa monnieri has been reported. The …

Tissue culture techniques are now becoming important tools of crop improvement and rapid
multiplication of selected clones. There has been considerable interest in applying these …