Studies on the Invitro Regenerative Response of Santalum Album

Trees are an integral part of human life, and vital components of biodiversity forest in particular are renewable sources of food, fodder, products. In recent years there is a tremendous reduction in forest vegetation due to the marked increase of population and also the human desire to progress. To protect the areas of forest vegetation, conventional approaches have been employed in the past for propagation and improvement. In recent years due to biotechnological interventions for in vitro regeneration, mass micro propagation and gene transfer methods in forest tree species have been practiced with great success.

Though there exists the limitations of long juvenile phases and lifespan, development of plant regeneration protocols and genetic engineering of tree species are gaining importance in present trends. By Genetic engineering there is a possibility of introducing a desired gene in a single step for precision breeding of forest trees. This study of santalum album attempts to overview the progress in tissue cultural genetic transformation and biotechnological applications in the present and also focuses the future implication.