Table of contents
Plant Tissue Culture for Farmers
A beginner-friendly path from sterile basics to 50 practical propagation projects
Read each section in order. Every title can be opened as a TheoryTrace document.
- Cover1
- Copyright2
- How to read this book3
- Introduction4
- Chapter 1: What Plant Tissue Culture Can and Cannot Do5
- Chapter 2: The Biology Behind Tissue Culture6
- Chapter 3: Setting Up a Small Low-Cost Culture Space7
- Chapter 4: Tools, Containers, and Materials8
- Chapter 5: Sterility, Contamination, and Farmer-Level Lab Discipline9
- Chapter 6: Media Basics: Nutrients, Sugar, Gelling Agents, and pH10
- Chapter 7: Plant Growth Regulators Made Understandable11
- Chapter 8: Preparing Explants from Healthy Mother Plants12
- Chapter 9: Surface Sterilization Protocols13
- Chapter 10: First Cultures: Starting Without Overcomplication14
- Chapter 11: Shoot Multiplication Projects15
- Chapter 12: Rooting and Plantlet Development16
- Chapter 13: Hardening and Acclimatization in the Nursery17
- Chapter 14: 50 Beginner Tissue Culture Projects Map18
- Chapter 15: Food Crop Projects 1–1019
- Chapter 16: Herb, Spice, and Medicinal Plant Projects 11–2020
- Chapter 17: Vegetable and Seedling Support Projects 21–3021
- Chapter 18: Ornamental Plant Projects 31–4022
- Chapter 19: Tree, Plantation, and Advanced Crop Projects 41–5023
- Chapter 20: Troubleshooting Culture Problems24
- Chapter 21: Records, Data, and Simple Production Math25
- Chapter 22: Disease-Free Planting Material and Quality Control26
- Chapter 23: Safety, Ethics, Regulations, and Responsible Selling27
- Chapter 24: Building a Small Tissue Culture Enterprise28
- Conclusion29