scope

Topics will include, but are not limited to:

• Recent progress and problems in plant tissue culture technologies.
• Invitro and Invivo plantlet acclimatization.
• Michorrization of the tripartite culture systems.
• Contamination control and disease management of microplants.
• Autotropic micropropagation.
• Bioreactors and automation of micropropagation.
• Use of light emitting diode on microplant development.
• Quality control of micropropagules, genetic fidelity, molecular markers.
• Role of micro propagation in sustainable agriculture development especially in Asia and Africa.
• Economics of plant tissue culture, commercialization, production management, and protection of intellectual property. 
• National and International certification system for tissue culture raised plants, and  accreditation of tissue culture laboratories.