Abstract:

Plant tissue culture plays a pivotal role in modern agriculture, biotechnology, and research. Its implications extend widely to enhance the productivity of medicinal plants by ensuring uniformity in both the quantity and quality of their chemical constituents necessary to meet the demand of traditional medicines, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare. The integration of tissue culture with other cutting-edge technologies such as genomics and bioinformatics further amplifies its potential to revolutionize plant science and contribute to sustainable development. Bioinformatics can complement this by analyzing the vast amount of genomic and transcriptomic data generated from tissue culture experiments. This integration can lead to the identification of genes responsible for desirable traits, enabling targeted breeding strategies and the development of improved crop varieties and medicinal plants with desired characteristics such as increased secondary metabolites, disease resistance, and nutritional content. The present chapter focuses on bioinformatics interventions in plant tissue culture to gain a comprehensive understanding of how these components work together to determine the behavior of the whole plant with special attentiveness toward medicinal plant propagation through tissue culture technology.

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