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.

• Cover
• Copyright
• How to read this book
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: What Plant Tissue Culture Can and Cannot Do
• Chapter 2: The Biology Behind Tissue Culture
• Chapter 3: Setting Up a Small Low-Cost Culture Space
• Chapter 4: Tools, Containers, and Materials
• Chapter 5: Sterility, Contamination, and Farmer-Level Lab Discipline
• Chapter 6: Media Basics: Nutrients, Sugar, Gelling Agents, and pH
• Chapter 7: Plant Growth Regulators Made Understandable
• Chapter 8: Preparing Explants from Healthy Mother Plants
• Chapter 9: Surface Sterilization Protocols
• Chapter 10: First Cultures: Starting Without Overcomplication
• Chapter 11: Shoot Multiplication Projects
• Chapter 12: Rooting and Plantlet Development
• Chapter 13: Hardening and Acclimatization in the Nursery
• Chapter 14: 50 Beginner Tissue Culture Projects Map
• Chapter 15: Food Crop Projects 1–10
• Chapter 16: Herb, Spice, and Medicinal Plant Projects 11–20
• Chapter 17: Vegetable and Seedling Support Projects 21–30
• Chapter 18: Ornamental Plant Projects 31–40
• Chapter 19: Tree, Plantation, and Advanced Crop Projects 41–50
• Chapter 20: Troubleshooting Culture Problems
• Chapter 21: Records, Data, and Simple Production Math
• Chapter 22: Disease-Free Planting Material and Quality Control
• Chapter 23: Safety, Ethics, Regulations, and Responsible Selling
• Chapter 24: Building a Small Tissue Culture Enterprise
• Conclusion