The College of Agriculture at the University of Basra organized a seminar on plant tissue culture, a biotechnology bridge for propagating medicinal plants and producing secondary metabolites. The seminar's role in plant propagation and increasing the production of secondary and medicinal compounds is also important.

The seminar aimed to highlight the importance of tissue culture in propagating medicinal plants and extracting active compounds from them, with a focus on plant parts with high secondary metabolite contents and methods for stimulating tissues to increase the production of these compounds.

The seminar also addressed the basic stages of tissue culture technology, the differences between it and traditional propagation methods, and the most prominent challenges facing the application of this technology. Several successful laboratory experiments on plants such as rosemary, rose, ginger, and banana were reviewed.

The seminar emphasized that tissue culture is an important modern technique, as it combines plant physiology, genetics, and biotechnology, and aims to produce identical, disease-free plants within a short time.

Department of Media and Government Communication / College of Agriculture