January 2016
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Banana is a nutritionally and economically important crop, produced and consumed particularly in the developing countries, which often faces numerous biotic and abiotic challenges that further compounded by changing adverse climatic conditions. Conventional breeding methods contributed to some extent for the banana improvement in the past, due to low female fertility, sterility and polyploidy condition resulting poor seed set, and takes longer duration as well. With the advent of biotechnological approaches such as genetic engineering and tissue culture technology, the genetic improvements in banana are being realized in short time and as per the need of changing climatic condition. The successful genetic engineering techniques leading to the crop improvement needs standardization and optimization of in vitro culture and transformation procedure.