Induced mutagenesis is well recognized as one of the most important technology for the development of new varieties through genetic manipulations. Mutation techniques, using physical and chemical mutagens, have successfully produced quite a large number of new promising varieties in different ornamental plants. This technique has been most successful in ornamental plants due to some additional ...

tissue culture is an attractive alternative for plant propagation. micropropagation is a technique to ensure a constant and uniform source of ornamental plants. matthiola incana is an important ornamental species mainly cultivate by seed. matthiola incana seeds were germinated on solid ms medium without plant growth regulators. shoot proliferation and root formation are possible using kinetin (...

Ornamental fish keeping has become an increasingly popular hobby, and there are now more than 330 mil lion ornamental fish sold each year throughout the world (Riehl and Baensch 1989). Although the total number of fish species exceeds 30,000 (Friede 1987), only 4000 of these species classify as freshwater or namental species (Riehl and Baensch 1989). Of these species a few hundred are popular a...