“…Within 3 to 4 weeks, somatic embryos and plantlets with roots and shoots could be successfully regenerated from embryogenic callus derived from the shoot apical meristem (Elliot 1969;Over de Linden and Elliot 1972;Alconero et al 1975;Scaramuzzi and DeGaetano 1983;Jarret et al 1984;Liu and Cantliffe 1984;Chee and Cantliffe 1988;Komaki et al 1989;Chee et al 1990;MandaI and Chandal 1991;AVRDC 1991;Acedo 1991;Schultheis and Cantliffe 1992;Mukherjee et al 1993), stern and root explants (Liu and Cantliffe 1984;Mukherjee et al 1993), leaf explants (Sehgal 1975;Belarmino et al 1992), anther (Kobayashi and Shikata 1975;Sehgal 1978;Tsay and Tseng 1979;Tsay et al 1982;Mukherjee et al 1991), nodal explants MandaI and Chandal1990;Paul et al 1991), petiole explants (Prakash et al 1996), petiole protoplasts (Murata et al 1987), stem and petiole protoplasts (Murata et al 1987;Sihachakr and Ducreux 1987;Belarmino et al 1994), and mesophyll cell suspension (Murata et al 1994). Within 3 to 4 weeks, somatic embryos and plantlets with roots and shoots could be successfully regenerated from embryogenic callus derived from the shoot apical meristem (Elliot 1969;Over de Linden and Elliot 1972;Alconero et al 1975;Scaramuzzi and DeGaetano 1983;Jarret et al 1984;…”