Assistant Professor Dr. Azhar Mahmoud Halim participated in the cultural season of the Environmental Research Center / University of Technology lecture on "Applications in tissue culture" on Wednesday, 27/2/2019

Where the lecture highlighted one of the most important applications of biotechnologies (plant tissue culture), which is known as the art and science of propagating plants In vitro, in sterile environments under controlled laboratory conditions, temperature, light intensity, concentration of other growth requirements such as hormones and nutrients, to produce large numbers of seedlings capable of growing and producing in natural environments during short periods. The idea of ​​tissue culture based on the hypothesis of the plant scientist Haberlandt in 1902 that assumed that one cell could give a plant, but the application of this hypothesis was delayed, so that the production of the first research laboratory in this regard in early 1970. The main reasons for the application of this technique are the environmental reasons, such as pollutions, reduced the agricultural area, the extinction of species and the loss of natural habitats, or for economic reasons, through the production of types of economic returns that contribute to raising national income, such as date palm, banana, rice, mango and other plants Economic nature, or through the propagation of plants have high pharmaceutical and medical value..