Culturing of Plant Cell Suspension Cultures
Purpose: Plant cells can be grown under sterile conditions as suspension or callus cultures and
given the appropriate hormonal supplements to the growth media can be induced to regenerate
into an entire plant. This phenomenon is unique to plants and is termed totipotency. Cell cultures
(plant, animal, microbial, etc.) also offer advantages for certain types of experimental
manipulations because the culture conditions are easily manipulated. This protocol details
procedures necessary for the maintenance of plant cell suspension cultures.
1. Preparation of Murashige and Skoog nutrient media - 1 liter 4.3 gm MS salts (contains essential
salts, nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, etc.) 2 ml Gamborg's vitamins