Tissue culture laboratory set up and operation. Clonal propagation of selected agricultural, horticultural and indigenous plants. In vitro selection of disease-resistant and stress-tolerant cell lines. Somatic hybridisation and production of new varieties. Cryopreservation and germplasm storage. Artificial seeds. In vitro selection of transformed cell lines. Conditioning and hardening of tissue-cultured plantlets. Animal cell culture and applications.
