@article{3275,
author = "Priyanka Sharma and Bidhan Roy and Monish Roy and Gadge Sushant Sundarrao",
abstract = "In different plant species, artificial seeds are produced successfully by encapsulating the plant propagules. This technique has been considered to be advantageous since it has cost effective delivery system, minimization of the cost of plantlets, simple methodology with high potential for mass multiplication and production, a promising technique for the direct use of artificial seedlings in vivo and a high storage capacity. This review paper emphasizes the feasibility of using somatic embryos for conservation of germplasm. It also encourages for optimizing the encapsulation matrix for large scale preparation of synthetic seeds. In plant biotechnology, the methods for encapsulation and somatic embryogenesis technologies creates an innovative and potential tool for an efficient and cost effective large scale propagation, breeding, in vitro conservation, non embryonic synthetic seed production and exchange and distribution of germplasm. It has been reviewed and verified in this paper that the production and development of synthetic seed technology is an authentic method of propagation in several commercially important agronomic and horticultural crops and has also been suggested as a powerful tool for mass propagation of elite plant species with high commercial value. These synthetic seeds would also be a channel for new plant lines produced through biotechnological tools to be delivered directly to the greenhouse or field and is also considered to be a high volume, low cost production technology, easy to transport, easy of handling while in storage, has a potential for long term storage without losing viability, rapid multiplication and thereby maintaining genetic uniformity of plants.",
issn = "23191473",
journal = "IJAIR",
keywords = "Synthetic Seed;Encapsulation Technology;Horticultural Crops;Mass Multiplication;Conservation",
month = "November",
number = "3",
pages = "237-244",
title = "{S}ynthetic {S}eed {T}echnology in {H}orticultural {C}rops for {C}onservation and {U}tilisation of {G}ermplasm",
volume = "9",
year = "2020",
}