除了植物的遗传操作外,植物细胞和组织培养正日益广泛地用作生化过程和分子过程研究的重要工具。在玉米中,早期的研究是关于甜质胚乳和非甜质胚乳的培养。此后的报道有关于从二倍体材料来源的愈伤组织诱导和保持,以及成功地从盾片培养物和已萌发但未成熟胚的中胚轴切片再生出幼株。 In addition to the genetic manipulation of plants, plant cells and tissue culture are increasingly used as important tools for the study of biochemical and molecular processes. In corn, earlier studies have focused on the cultivation of sweet endosperm and non-sweet endosperm. Subsequent reports have dealt with the induction and maintenance of callus from diploid sources and the successful regeneration of young plants from mesocotyl slices of scutellum cultures and already germinated but immature embryos.