Tissue Culture - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Tissue Culture Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

Learn to propagate plants by tissue culturing. Tissue culture involves growing plants from very small sections (sometimes microscopic) in a laboratory. It is a propagation method which is being increasingly used.

Tissue culture is not appropriate for many plants, but for others such as orchids, some indoor plants and in particular, many new plant varieties, it is a very popular propagation method.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure:

1. Introduction including a review of basic plant nutrition.
   • Stages in tissue cultured plant development
   • Introduction to Plant Growth Science, biochemical processes and cell biology
   • Transpiration, Photosynthesis and Respiration
   • Plant Parts -Stems, Leaves, Roots, Buds, Flowers and fruits
   • What happens as Tissue Matures
   • Types of Plant Tissue
   • Methods of Shoot Induction and Proliferation
   • Advantitious Roots
   • Terminology

1. Plant Nutrients
   • Major Elements
   • Minor (Trace) Elements
   • Total Salts
   • How Plants Grow
   • Factors Affecting Nutrient Uptake
   • Nutrient Solution Preparation
   • Hydroponic Nutrients
   • Chelates
   • Growing Media for Tissue Culture
   • Water in Tissue Culture
   • Chemical Analysis

1. The Laboratory
   • The Tissue Culture Laboratory
   • Preparation Area
   • Transfer Chamber
   • Culture Growing Area
   • Siting a New Lab
   • Equipment Requirements for a Lab
   • Chemicals

1. Micropropagation Techniques
   • Stock Plants -selection, planting, management
   • Uses for Tissue Culture
   • Problems with Tissue Culture
   • Procedures
   • Explants
   • Sterilisation
   • Nutrient Media
   • Shoot Induction and Proliferation
   • Rooting and Planting Out
   • Stages in Plant Development
   • Treating Plant Tissue with Sterilants

1. Plant Hormones
   • Chemical Growth Modification
   • Principles of Using Plant Hormones
   • Auxins, Cytokinin's, Gibberellins, Abscisic acid and Ethylene.
   • Other Chemical Treatment

1. The Tissue Culture Environment
   • Media Types -Filter Bridge, Agar, Liquid
   • Nutrient Media Composition
   • Cleanlines
   • Light and Temperature
   • Hormones
   • Artificial Light
   • Water Quality
   • Water Treatments
   • Carbon Dioxide Effects
   • Greenhouses
   • Diagnosis of Plant Disorder

1. Commercial Applications
   • Understanding Genetics and Plant Breeding
   • Biotechnology
   • Cell Fusions
   • Overcoming Pollination Incompatibility
   • Pollination Biology

1. Taking Plants out of Culture
   • Hardening off Plants
   • Growing Rooms or Chambers
   • Rockwool Applications with Micropropagation

1. Culture of Selected Species
   • Begonia
   • Cattleya
   • Cymbidium
   • Review of a range of other plant

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Horticulturalists, Garden Enthusiasts, Home Gardeners, Landscapers, Garden Designers.

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Studying horticulture creates a world potential for every nature lover in search of a career. Plants are one of the most important organisms in our world. We eat them, we grow them, we use them for ornamentation and even medicine.

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