Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC) highlights breakthrough technologies and discoveries in plant biology and biotechnology, spanning the field from new insights into the...
This Topical Collection will include research on all aspects of the development and exploitation of biotechnology-based approaches for the breeding, tissue culture and genetic improvement of woody crops, including forest, fruit, ornamental, and medicinal species. Authoritative state-of-the-art reviews, original research articles, and opinion and perspective papers will be considered.
The Collection will be co-edited by (alphabetically) Ali Alan, Klaus Eimert, Victor Jiménez, Maurizio Lambardi, Paloma Moncaleán, Ranjith Pathirana, Traud Winkelmann, and Sergio Ochatt as Editor-in-Chief.
KEYWORDS
Agrobacterium/Rhizobium, callus, cell suspensions, CRISPR/Cas9, cryopreservation, flow cytometry, forest trees, fruit trees, gene expression, gene transfer, genetic stability, genome editing, haploid and polyploid breeding, medicinal shrubs and trees, micropropagation, microscopy, molecular analysis, organogenesis, ornamental trees and shrubs, protoplasts, RAPD, seeds, shoot tips, somaclonal variation, somatic embryogenesis, SSR, synthetic seeds, ultrastructure
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Ali R. Alan
Ali R. Alan holds a BSc in Horticulture from Çukurova University (Türkiye), MSc in Plant Breeding and Genetics and Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology from Cornell University (USA). Full professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Biology at Pamukkale University, he directs the Plant genetics and Agricultural Biotechnology Application and Research Center (Denizli, Türkiye). Tissue culture and molecular biology expert planning, directing, and carrying out research in agricultural, food, forest, medicinal, and ornamental plant species. His team develops biotechnological tools to assist breeders in crop improvement programs. -
Klaus Eimert
Klaus Eimert is Senior Principal Research Scientist at and acting head of the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences of the Hochschule Geisenheim University in Germany. His group has extensive experience in the application of plant biotechnology and molecular tools in the breeding of horticultural crops and, also, in the environmental protection of autochthonous trees and endangered plants. -
Víctor M. Jiménez
Víctor M. Jiménez holds the position of Director at the Institute of Agricultural Research (IIA) and serves as Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Costa Rica. His research focuses on tropical plants, with emphasis on their physiology, propagation by tissue culture, and analysis of bioactive compounds, all with the aim of evaluating their potential to improve food security in marginalised regions. He has held teaching and research positions at the University of Costa Rica and the University of Hohenheim, Germany. -
Maurizio Lambardi
Maurizio Lambardi is a Senior Researcher of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy at the IBE-Institute for BioEconomy in Florence and has the National Scientific Qualification of ‘Full-Professor’ in the sector Arboriculture and Forest Systems. He is the country representative for Italy in the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS). His research focuses on plant tissue culture and its application to woody plant propagation and conservation, with particular attention to micropropagation, liquid culture in temporary immersion systems, in vitro slow growth storage and cryopreservation. -
Paloma Moncaleán
Paloma Moncaleán, PhD, works in Neiker-BRTA, Spain, focusing on the development of woody plant propagation by organogenesis and somatic embryogenesis. Somatic embryogenesis techniques were developed and optimised in Pinus spp. Her team studies stress-induced epigenetic changes in Pinus radiata embryogenic tissue to get stress tolerant plantlets. She has been responsible for technology transfer projects to private companies in Chile, Argentina and Spain. She was appointed as deputy coordinator of the 2.09.02 IUFRO Unit on Somatic Embryogenesis and other Vegetative Propagation Technologies. -
Ranjith Pathirana
Ranjith was Chair and Professor of Agricultural Biology at the University of Ruhuna and the founding editor-in-chief of the international journal Tropical Agricultural Research and Extension. In 2002 he joined the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, where he pioneered cryopreservation and established the cryo-genebank. Currently he is affiliated with the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine of the University of Adelaide, Australia. His principal interests are applying in vitro cell and plant biotechnologies for crop improvement, conservation, and elucidating biochemical pathways, particularly in plant stress response. -
Traud Winkelmann
Traud Winkelmann is Professor for Propagation Physiology of Horticultural Crops at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Her research focuses on using tissue culture techniques for breeding and propagation and understanding the physiological and genetic basis of involved developmental processes. During the last years, her group gained knowledge and expertise in adventitious root formation of woody plants, in replant disease of Rosaceous crops, in Ri plant generation for breeding and in vitro stress testing. -
Sergio Ochatt
Sergio Ochatt is a senior scientist at INRAE with more than 40 years’ experience in plant biotechnology. He is Editor-in-Chief of PCTOC. Studied fruit tree and ornamental woody species until 1996, works on grain legumes since. Some landmark team results include: first regeneration from deciduous fruit tree protoplasts; electroporation effects on DNA synthesis and regeneration; selection and recovery of salt/drought tolerant plants; double haploids in legumes; transformants and RNAi in legumes; genotype cytological, molecular and flow cytometry characterization. He is also interested in secondary metabolite production.
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