Most tissue culture research reaches a working lab years late, if at all. This series reads the work that matters to commercial propagation and says what it would take to use it: the explant, the kit, the success rates, and what is still unproven.
Western Australia's Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development has started a three-year project to make doubled haploid breeding of wheat and barley faster and cheaper. Here is the technique it builds on — the explant, the trigger, the kit, and the part of a breeding cycle it actually compresses.
