In continuation of Somaclonal Variation and Crop Improvement I (1990), this volume is comprised of twenty-four chapters dealing with somaclonal variants showing resistance to salt drought, herbicides, viruses, "Alternaria," "Fusarium," "Glomerella," "Verticillium," "Phytophthora," fall armyworm, etc. in a number of plants of economic importance. It is divided into two sections: Section I. Somaclonal Variation in Agricultural Crops: wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, potato, tomato, "Lotus," "Stylosanthes," banana, strawberry, citrus, colt cherry. Section II. Somaclonal Variation in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: "Atropa," "Carthamus," "Hypericum," "Lavatera," "Nicotiana," Primula, Rauwolfia, scilla, and Zinnia.