Anyone with comments and suggestions on the present scenario, future. How many centers are there presently working on this aspect of genetics?
I am convinced that basic studies and chromosome number and karyotype structure in plants has still much to contribute to plant science. 75% of angiosperms (the richest plant group) is completely unknown in this respect! Many people is currently considering this discipline as "old-fashioned", but this is not true, at all! Moreover, by uniting classical cytotaxonomical approaches with other techniques (genome size etimation, molecular phylogenies) much more complete pictures of the studied organisms are possible!
I agree with both of you (Dibyendu Talukdar and Lorenzo Peruzzi ) that Plant cytogenetics has enormous potential in today's plant research. But to carry on with the basic research in this field is very difficult today because most of the funding for projects is for other subjects. In coming future due to lack funds this field is going to suffer more. the chromosomal data which was generated by such studies 100 years back is still useful in many ways but this is overlooked while giving funds to us. if some one is using high fascinating technique for research today the same will outdated after 5-6 years and of no value when new technique come for the same research. so why not to consider our research for funding which is still valued after 100 years?
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