Part I: Introduction
1. An Introduction to Plant Tissue Culture: Advances and Perspectives
Victor M. Loyola-Vargas and Neftal Ochoa-Alejo
Part II: Cell Culture the Fundaments 2. Micropropagation in the XXI Century Jean Carlos Cardoso, Lee Tseng Sheng Gerald, and Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva
3. Cellular and Morpho-histological Foundations of in vitro Plant Regeneration Diego Ismael Rocha, Lorena Melo Vieira, Andr a Dias Koehler, Wagner Campos Otoni 4. Bacterial Endophytes in Plant Tissue Culture: Mode of Action, Detection, and Control Mona Quambusch and Traud Winkelmann 5. Digital Photography as a Tool of Research and Documentation in Plant Tissue Culture
Victor Gaba, Yehudit Tam, Danny Shavit, Benjamin S
6. Selection of Molecular Markers for the Estimation of Somaclonal Variation Octavio Mart nez
7. Plant Tissue Culture. A Battle Horse in the Genome Editing Using CRISPR/Cas9 V ctor M. Loyola-Vargas and Randy N. Avilez-Montalvo
Part III: Protocols 8. Micropropagation of
Agave Species Benjam n Rodr guez-Garay and Jos Manuel Rodr guez-Dom nguez
9. Protocol for the Micropropagation of Coconut from Plumule Explants Luis S enz, Jos Luis Chan, Maria Narvaez, and Carlos Oropeza
10. Micropropagation of
Yucca Species Yessica L pez-Ram rez, Alejandra Palomeque-Carl n, Luc a Isabel Ch vez Ortiz, Ma. de Lourdes de la Rosa-Carrillo, and Eugenio P rez-Molphe-Balch
11. Auxin Immunolocalization in Coffea canephora Tissues
Ruth E. M rquez-L pez, ngela Ku-Gonz lez, Hugo A. M ndez-Hern ndez, Rosa M. Galaz- valos, and V ctor M. Loyola-Vargas
12. Somatic Embryogenesis in Common Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris L. Jos Luis Cabrera-Ponce, Itzel Anayetzi Gonz lez-G mez, Claudia G. Le n-Ram rez, Jos A. S nchez-Arregu n, and Alba E. Jofre y Garfias
13. Induction of Somatic embryogenesis in Jatropha curcas Rosa M. Galaz-Avalos, Heydi G. Mart nez-S nchez, and V ctor M. Loyola-Vargas
14. In Vitro Proliferation of Female Buds for Induction of Somatic Embryogenesis from False Horn Plantain (AAB, Currar )
Rosa Maria Escobedo-Gracia-Medrano, Carlos Iv n Cruz-C rdenas, Lucila Aurelia S nchez-Cach, Jos Roberto Ku-Cauich, and Wilma Aracely Gonz lez-Kant n 15. Somatic Embryogenesis in
Theobroma cacao L. Claudia Garcia, Jean-Philippe Marelli, Juan Carlos Motamayor, and Cristiano Villela 16. Somatic Embryogenesis of
Quercus suber L. from Immature Zygotic Embryos Pilar S. Testillano, Ar nzazu G mez-Garay, Beatriz Pintos, and Mar a C. Risue o 17. Cryotherapy: a Novel Method for Virus Eradication in Economically Important Plant Species Min-Rui Wang, Long Chen, Zhibo Zhang, Dag-Ragnar Blystad, and Qiao-Chun Wang 18. Cryopreservation of Pineapple Shoot Tips by the Droplet Vitrification Technique Fernanda Vidigal Duarte Souza, Everton Hilo de Souza, Ergun Kaya, L via de Jesus Vieira, and Ronilze Leite da Silva 19. Cryopreservation of Pollen Grains of Pineapple and Other Bromeliads Fernanda Vidigal Duarte Souza, Everton Hilo de Souza, and Ronilze Leite da Silva 20. Application of
in Casa Pollination and Embryo Rescue Techniques for Breeding of
Agave Species Benjam n Rodr guez-Garay, Sigifredo L pez-D az, Jos Manuel Rodr guez-Dom nguez, Antonia Guti rrez-Mora, and Ernesto Tapia-Campos 21. Haploid and Doubled Haploid Plant Production in Carrot Using Induced Parthenogenesis and Ovule Excision in Vitro Agnieszka Kielkowska, Adela Adamus, and Rafal Baranski 22. Using Flow Cytometry Analysis in Plant Tissue Culture Derived Plants Rosa Mar a Escobedo-Gracia-Medrano, Martha Josefa Burgos-Tan, Jos Roberto Ku-Cauich, and Adriana Quiroz-Moreno