Acclaimed since its first appearance as the most practical guide to plant tissue culture and widely adopted as a textbook, this standard work is now even better. This expanded edition introduces new developments in biotechnology, such as genetic engineering and cell culture. It provides detailed recipes for propagating plants from more than 30 families. It explains clearly how to set up a propagating laboratory, from a hobbyist's kitchen to an elaborate commercial enterprise.
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"Plants from Test Tubes is the best hands-on how-to-do-it text, including recipes for propagating fifty-four varieties of ferns, flowering plants, and conifers."
—Whole Earth, Spring 2001 (Whole Earth )
"This is an altogether wonderful book for budding plant scientists or gardeners who seek to expand their gardening knowledge."
—Charles Hardman, Herbertia, August 2000 (Herbertia )
"This new edition of an essential reference, updated to include the explosion of scientific information in the related field of biotechnology, remains the most accessible and practical book on the subject." Lydiane Kyte, Wisconsin Bookwatch, August 22, 2000 (Wisconsin Bookwatch )
—Whole Earth, Spring 2001 (Whole Earth )
"This is an altogether wonderful book for budding plant scientists or gardeners who seek to expand their gardening knowledge."
—Charles Hardman, Herbertia, August 2000 (Herbertia )
"This new edition of an essential reference, updated to include the explosion of scientific information in the related field of biotechnology, remains the most accessible and practical book on the subject." Lydiane Kyte, Wisconsin Bookwatch, August 22, 2000 (Wisconsin Bookwatch )
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This expanded edition introduces new developments in biotechnology, such as genetic engineering and cell culture. It provides detailed recipes for propagating plants from more than 30 families. It explains clearly how to set up a propagating laboratory, from a hobbyist's kitchen to an elaborate commercial enterprise.
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This review is from: Plants from Test Tubes: An Introduction to Micropropagation (Hardcover)
For those just starting out, this is as good as it gets. Good for the beginner, but contains information useful to the more experienced. If you get hooked on this hobby, it shows how to set up your own lab without breaking the bank. The bibliography and list of supply sources will let you go as far as you want.
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This book contains everything that you need to know to start cloneing plants. Some of the material is geared more towards comericial operations but there is a lot for the hobbiest too. I thought that it could have been organized a little better. The authors talk about equipment and media before they go through the cloning process. Parts of it will be boring unless you are planing to actually culture plants. For example there are several step by step lists on how to preform transfers etc.
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The presentation of the book is very nice.It's written in a way that most person with some limited sciences background will understand with no trouble at all.Book is very well designed, by chapters from early discoveries to the most advance techniques, and still easy to completly understand and follow procedures without any problems. Language is very simple and clear, and is not boring at all.Author has a good way of describing and teaching the subject, and have a way of keeping interested in reading and doing the practical side of the experiments.
Will highly recomend.I;m very happy in owning this book.
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Plant tissue culture is a field of many facets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
culture growing room, sterile distilled water rinses, itro propagation, rooting jars, media preparation room, tissue culture operations, tissue cultured plants, lens immersion oil, plant propagators, transfer hood, agitated liquid medium, focus adjustment knob, tissue cultured plantlets, minor salts, micropropagated plants, tropical foliage plants, adenine sulfate, rooting stage, plant tissue culture media, sterile paper towel, tissue culturist, explant material, transfer room, nodal sections, multiplying jars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Plant tissue culture is a field of many facets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
culture growing room, sterile distilled water rinses, itro propagation, rooting jars, media preparation room, tissue culture operations, tissue cultured plants, lens immersion oil, plant propagators, transfer hood, agitated liquid medium, focus adjustment knob, tissue cultured plantlets, minor salts, micropropagated plants, tropical foliage plants, adenine sulfate, rooting stage, plant tissue culture media, sterile paper towel, tissue culturist, explant material, transfer room, nodal sections, multiplying jars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Inositol Thiamine, United States, Fungi Perfecti, Micro Plantae, Sigma Chemical New!
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- Micropropagation: Technology and Application by P. Debergh in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Organ Culture by J.Andre Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Microbiology Experiments: A Health Science Perspective by John Kleyn on page 119, and Back Matter
- Plant Propagation by Tissue Culture: Part 1 - The Technology by Edwin F. George in Back Matter
- Scientific Studies (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 12) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Back Matter
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- Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation by Ken Druse on page 223, and Back Matter
- Kalmia: Mountain Laurel and Related Species by Richard A. Jaynes on page 46, and Back Matter
- Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants by William Cullina in Back Matter
- Handbook of Molecular and Cellular Methods in Biology and Medicine, Second Edition by Leland J. Cseke on page 375
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