Plant Tissue Culture

Sunghun Park is Professor at the Department of Horticulture and Natural Resources at Kansas State University, USA. He earned his PhD in Plant Physiology from Texas A&M University in 1995 and his main research areas include abiotic stress physiology, crop improvement using plant tissue culture and genome editing technology.

1. History of plant tissue culture2. Setup of a tissue culture laboratory3. Media components and preparation4. Explant preparation5. Contamination6. Callus induction7. Regeneration and morphogenesis8. Woody shrubs and trees9. Haploid plants from another culture10. Embryo rescue11. Meristem culture for virus-free plants12. In Vitro propagation for commercial production of ornamentals13. Protoplast isolation and fusion14. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants15. Genome edition and RNAi