Norrizah Jaafar Sidik is the Head of School of Biology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. She holds a Ph.D Degree (2008), in Plant Biotechnology from Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her main field of scientific interest are plant physiology, plant development and micropropagation of several agricultural, medicinal and forestry plants to conserve endangered and rare species. She also has a keen interest in plant tissue culture and enhancement in the productivity of important pharmaceutical compounds of medicinal plants, hairy root transformation using Agrobacterium rhizogenes. She has completed research projects dealing with the production of anticancer, antimicrobial, antiinflammatory and antioxidant compounds from plants using in-vitro cultures. She is a member of Malaysian Society of Plant Physiology, Natural Product Society and Asian Federation of Biotechnology. She served on a number of National and International Scientific Committees.
Abstract
Plant cell and tissue cultures have remained an important tool in the study of basic field of plant biology, biochemistry, molecular and biotechnology. It is a system of developing plant cells, tissues, organs, seeds or other plant parts under sterile condition on a supplement medium. Different types of plant cultures can be initiated such as seed culture, embryo culture, meristem culture, hairy root cultures, callus culture and cell suspension culture for getting products with high yield and at faster rate.
