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Improvement of Plant Survival and Expediting Acclimatization Process

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Commercial Scale Tissue Culture for Horticulture and Plantation Crops

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Plant propagation by tissue culture is one of the crucial modern breeding technologies and an efficient method of clonal plant propagation which allows for increased production of horticulture and forest crops. The success of plant tissue culture depends on its potential to transfer plants out of culture vessels into the field conditions for large-scale production with a high survival rate. Micropropagated plants lack cuticle layer, stomata closure and have poorly developed roots leading to transpiration losses when transferred to ex vitro conditions. This chapter focuses on the diverse methods that can be used for the improvement of the tissue-cultured plant’s survival and for accelerating the acclimatization process. In vitro priming of propagules done with the help of growth regulators, simple changes to the growing environment and in vitro and ex vitro biotization with competent plant growth-promoting microorganisms (PGPMs) for improving plant survival/performance under the acclimatization process and consequently enhancing yield are some of the approaches which have been dealt upon in detail in this chapter.

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  2. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Dr. YS Parmar UHF, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India

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  3. Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India

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Shiwani, K., Sharma, D., Kumar, A. (2022). Improvement of Plant Survival and Expediting Acclimatization Process. In: Gupta, S., Chaturvedi, P. (eds) Commercial Scale Tissue Culture for Horticulture and Plantation Crops . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0055-6_12

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