Plant Science & Botany

Plant Tissue Culture
Current Status and Opportunities in a Changing Environment

Editors: Zahid Hameed Siddiqui, PhD
Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD

Plant Tissue Culture

In production
Pub Date: Forthcoming July 2024
Hardback Price: $200 US | £150 UK
Hard ISBN: 9781774917275
Pages: Est. 255pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 12 color and 10 b/w illustrations

Plants are sessile and constantly exposed to changing environmental conditions. Seasonal cues govern plant growth, development, and reproduction. In this era of climate change, the environment is unstable and takes a toll on the productivity of plants. This new book, Plant Tissue Culture: Current Status and Opportunities in a Changing Environment, explores this unique area of plant tissue culture in relation to climate change, showing how tissue culture techniques can be utilized to create tolerance to disease and stress, increase growth, and raise yield in plants.

This book discusses the use of plant tissue culture for producing superior material for planting and creating new, elite varieties of different kinds of crops in response to changing climatic conditions. It draws attention to the issues and dangers posed by climate change for plants and offers guidance for sustainable development utilizing tissue culture technology. In addition, it focuses on some fundamental ideas of plant tissue culture, presents studies that address climate change, and offers sustainable development alternatives. The book looks at important topics such as the benefits of synthetic seed technology, the impact of phytohormones and growth regulators on plant tissue culture, the impact of supplementing culture medium with organic substances, various plant tissue culture techniques, etc.

This book will prove beneficial for plant biotechnologists, environmentalists, ecologists, and scientists in enhancing their understanding of the complexities of climate change under in vitro conditions.

CONTENTS:
Preface

1. History of Plant Tissue Culture
Yogesh Chandrakant Suryawanshi

2. Recent Advances and Future Status of Plant Tissue Culture
Komal Shoukat, Muhammad Mahran Aslam, Zarrin Fatima Rizvi, Nazir Ahmed, Saman Zulfiqar, Iram Naz Sherazi, Javaria Fazal, Aniqa Bashir, Sajjad Hyder, Samiya Rehman, and Jawad Ali

3. Application of Synthetic Seeds and Somatic Embryogenesis in Changing Climate Conditions
Irfan Bashir Ganie, Zishan Ahmad, and Anwar Shahzad

4. Influence of Phytohormones in Plant Tissue Culture
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi, Wajiha Sarfraz, Muhammad Mahran Aslam, and Niaz Hussain Khohro

5. Asymbiotic Seed Germination and Micropropagation of Some Orchids of West Bengal, India
Soumi Bhattacharyya, Anindya Sundar Ray, Nirmalya Banerjee, and Chowdhury Habibur Rahaman

6. Plant Tissue Culture and Its Role in Plant Breeding Programs
Zahara Sultan, Najeebul Tarfeen, Burhan Hamid, Zaffar Bashir, and Tufail Ahmad Bhat

7. Generation of Composite Cowpea Plants Expressing a STOP1 Transcription Factor
Md. Ramiz Raza

8. The Role of Tissue Culture and Endophytes in Plant Secondary Metabolites Synthesis in Changing Environmental Conditions
Sabaha Tahseen, Zishan Ahmad, Anwar Shahzad, Adla Wsi, and Muthusamy Ramakrishnan

9. Application of Plant Tissue Culture for Sustainable Management of Heavy Metal Stress in Changing Environmental Conditions
Tekkam Shirisha, Appani Laxman Kumar, Darabakula Mukesh, Manasa, S., S. Venugopal, and S. Bharath Kumar

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Zahid Hameed Siddiqui, PhD
Assistant Professor, Tabuk University, Saudi Arabia

Zahid Hameed Siddiqui, PhD, is Assistant Professor at Tabuk University, Saudi Arabia. He is an environmentalist and plant biotechnologist. His area of research interest includes environmental pollution, conservation biology, and secondary metabolite production-based studies. He has nine years of teaching and research experience in plant biology. He has to his credit many research papers in prestigious journals, reviews, book chapters, and books. He has co-authored a book entitled Basics of Environmental Science. He is an active participant and presents his work at international and national seminars and conferences. Earlier, he worked as a principal investigator and co-investigator in many university-funded research projects. He is also actively engaged in developing research facilities at the University of Tabuk. Dr. Siddiqui has received many prestigious awards, including being named CSIR-Senior Research Fellow 2010, Govt. of India, and NESA Environmentalist of the Year Award 2020. He was awarded his PhD in the year 2011 from Hamdard University, India.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD
Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (botany; specialization in plant eco-physiology and molecular biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. At Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, he was a Postdoctorate Fellow and Fellow Researcher (Associate Professor) for several years. Dr. Hakeem has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions, as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels. He has served as a visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with different government organizations. To date, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 85 books with international publishers. He also has to his credit more than 185 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 55 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several high-impact international scientific journals. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of the Plantae Group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of the Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea. Dr. Hakeem has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World, since 2014–2020. Currently, Dr. Hakeem is engaged in studying the plant processes at eco-physiological as well as molecular levels.




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