Plant tissue Culture I:
Introduction to cell and tissue culture; Terms and definitions, Historical developments and milestones in plant tissue culture, special feature and internal organization of plant cells, totipotency, Dedifferentiation & redifferentiation.
Plant tissue Culture II:
Tissue Culture Media : History, Evolution and composition of :
White's Media, B5 (Gamborg), MS (Murashige and Skoog), LS
(Linsmaier and Skoog), SH (Schank and Hildebrandt) and N6 (Chu et al.) Media.
Micro propagation :
axillary bud, shoot tip, meristem culture, Somatic embryogenesis, Cell suspension culture, Protoplast isolation, testing viability of isolated protoplast. Steps in regeneration of protoplast, protoplast fusion: chemical & electrical
Histology of Tissues:
Selection of material, chemical fixation - types of fixatives, mechanism of fixation, tissue dehydration - general protocol, rapid dehydration and dehydration using a graded solvent series of ethanol or acetone, infiltrating and embedding tissues, sectioning, mounting and staining, alternate methods of microtomy (cryotome, cryostat and vibratome).
Biotransformation:
Production of secondary metabolites from plant cell cultures processes for enhancing the production of secondary metabolites, bioreactor system and modules for mass multiplication. Germplasm conservation (Cryopreservation)