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Plant Biotechnology
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
Milestones in the History of Plant-Tissue Culture
Scope of Plant-Tissue Culture Techniques
Media Requirements for Plant-Tissue Culture
Transgenic Plants and Their Applications
Secondary Metabolite Production in Plant-Tissue Culture Systems
INTRODUCTION
Biotechnology refers to the technology-based utilization of biological systems for generation of products to improve quality of human life. Such utilization has been happening since thousands of years in terms of agriculture (raising food crops), food production (baking, brewing, dairy products), and more recently in medicine (antibiotics from soil microorganisms). ...
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