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The large scale propagation of elite plant clones from hybrid or specific parent lines, through conventional micropropagation and/or somatic embryogenesis, is available to customers on a contract basis.

IVI has the ability to use these techniques for the whole range of plant species including foliage and cut flower ornamentals, vegetable crops, woody plants, aromatic, medicinal and field and plantation crops.

Through micropropagation, IVI is also introducing novel plants from the flora of India as new house and ornamental plants. The Research Team is constantly selecting, trailing and developing propagation Blue Prints for these novel species.

Tissue Culture techniques such as protoplast culture, somaclonal variation, endosperm culture, limited gene transfer, embryo rescue, anther culture and gametoclonal variation, and in vitro mutagenesis, have now been successfully and commercially used to speed up the process of introduction and induction of variations in several economically important crops.

The techniques used include the following:

• Protoplast culture and somatic hybridization
• Anther culture for production of doubled haploids
• Production of double haploids of monocots through gynogenesis
• Adventitious callus culture production and somaclonal variation
• Agrobacterium and biolistic gene transformation
• In vitro mutagenesis and mutation breeding
• Cross-fertilization of incompatible species through in vitro fertilization and/or embryo rescue
• Controlled crosses and field trailing
• Endosperm culture and triploid plant production
• Polyploid breeding for the production of plants with gigantic flower and fruit characteristics
• Varietal identification and discrimination based on the analysis of both nucleic acid and protein preparations

IVI's cellular and molecular expertise is continually expanding and this is available on contract basis to specialized plant breeding companies, seed industries and pharmaceutical sectors, to complement their crop and product improvement programmes.