Synthetic Seeds: Basic Principles and Applications

Abstract

Encapsulation technology is interesting research in biotechnology and widely studies due to synthetic seeds were use in conservation and delivery of tissue cultured plants in commercial and economic importance. Synthetic seeds were produced by encapsulating somatic embryos, shoot buds, axillary buds, protocorms or any other meristematic tissue with artificial endosperm and artificial seed coat to produce a new plant for reduce cost or delivery. Recently, hybrid plants, transgenic plants, endanger plants, economic plants, rare plants, cereals, fruits and medicinal plants were used for synthetic seeds. Therefore, this review provides both basic principles and applications of synthetic seeds.