Within the program of continuing education courses at the Marine Science Center for the academic year 2024-2025

Assistant Professor Mahmoud Shaker Hashem, Department of Marine Biology, gave a lecture entitled Plant Tissue Culture

The lecture included how to use plant cells, tissues or organs to obtain new plants in large numbers in less time than the time taken by traditional propagation methods. These plant cells or tissues are grown in a nutritional environment containing balanced concentrations of major and minor minerals, sucrose as a source of carbon, some growth regulators and vitamins, while providing all appropriate conditions, light, heat, humidity, etc. The cultivation process is carried out in glass containers and sometimes plastic, provided that all work steps are carried out under completely sterile conditions.

There are two methods used in this technique, directly and indirectly, in propagation, and each method has its positive and negative characteristics. The lecture aimed to introduce the plant tissue culture technique and its applications, advantages and disadvantages, as this technique is one of the biotechnology methods that includes the use of laboratory strategies and techniques to grow different parts of plants on chemically defined artificial nutrient media.