Plant tissue or organ culture was developed because the conventional breeding techniques could not fulfill the required demand of crops. It makes use of parts of a plant to generate multiple copies of the plant in a very short duration. The technique exploits the property of totipotency of plant cell which means that any cell from any part of the plant can be used to generate a whole new plant. The different types of plant tissue culture include: seed culture, embryo culture, callus culture, organ culture, protoplast culture etc. Tissue culture is used for developing genetically identical plants from one single parent. This can produce disease-free plants. It has also been used for the production of commercially important plants like tomato, banana, apple etc. The presentation will provide you promising details on this topic.

Reshma Menon

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