To provide information about plant cell and tissue culture techniques and to ensure the acquisition of skills for their application.

Definition and history of tissue culture, laboratory setup, preparation of culture media, selection of media, plant growth regulators, callus cultures, micropropagation, haploid plant production, protoplast culture and somatic hybridization, somatic embryogenesis, organogenesis, production of secondary products, obtaining virus-free plants, caryopreseration of cultures, tissue culture in plant breeding.