Plants from Test Tubes: An Introduction to Micropropogation Hardcover – August 13, 2013

This book gives you all the information you need to get started and then some. The items list and costs need updated, most of the estimated costs are much lower now then when the book was published. The knowledge and practices are up to date so don't worry about that aspect. Great read and easy to understand, has me excited to start experimenting!

It gives you pretty much everything you need, lays it out in very understandable fashion, and is a relatively short book so it's not too hard to get through. If you are interested in microprop at home and want to learn how it's done--this will give you the knowledge you need to pull it off.If you are looking for advance knowledge for a specific species you are trying to microprop, this is likely not the book for you unless your just starting out--it's very good for learning what microprop is, how it works, and all the basics. Something I've learn from my research though is that even very similar plants (to varieties of the same species) the recipe to microprop can be VERY different.But if your buying this to play around at home, make new plants from ones you already have, or investigate what Microprop is--I highly recommend this book.

Fairly good reading for a person with some familiarity with the topic. Some more practical alternatives for the hobbyist verses the university lab or commercial applications for hard to acquire items like antibiotics which are often prescription only in the US and disaster recovery methods instead of dump and start over, would be nice. For example, a medium that has recently become contaminated might have a recoverable specimen if it is given good wash in sterile water with a drop or two of chlorine and then replated, trimming a slightly contaminated exterior of a specimen down to a uncontaminated core and replating might save it, or when a contaminated plate has a photosynthetic specimen moving it to a clean lighted medium with no other energy sources added may starve any infectious agent that remains while leaving the specimen alive. Keeping in mind for a hobbyist a method that gets one or two survivors is far better that a much more precise, complex, and time consuming method that brings a 90% survival rate. As I said mostly nitpicking.

Great book for beginners or if you've done it a bit.

Fantastic book if you want to learn about tissue cultures

I thought this book was going to be simple and basic BUT it is not, (from a novice's point of view anyway). TIP: Whenever you come to a word you don't understand, look it up and write the def down, even in the back pages, this will help you hugely because these words keep coming up over and over. There were times I thought it would be easier to learn how to become a surgeon but eventually my persistence paid off, the light at the end of the tunnel was not on a train coming to run me down, it was the light of EUREKA! I get it. When I finish the last part, I'm going to read it again because even though I'm 68, I want to understand this process thoroughly and put it into action. (Ideas without action are simply thoughts).I also bought a copy of "Plant tissue culture" which was more expensive, 1/3 shorter and 20% full of References. I haven't read it yet, just flipped through the pages, so these are just my initial thoughts.If you just want to grow a few plants for the garden or a bit of weed, there might be less in-depth books out there.As far as I'm concerned, if you are a student or want to get serious about MICRO-PROPAGATION, buy this book and go for it. Cheers

This book covers the things you need to know, only it gets too technical for me. Coupled with home information from internet sites you can get a really good grasp of the techniques.

the book is ok it would of helped but i didnt need the histery it is a begener book its ok for that