Plant tissue Culture

1. What is plant tissue culture?                                                                                                                    It is the process of producing plants from tissues in an artificial nutrient medium under controlled environment condition. The plants so produced would be exactly same as the mother plant in all aspects.
2. Importance of tissue culture?
   
   • Tissue culture raised plants Are vigorous and faster growing than conventional plants.
   • The high degree of uniformity than The conventionally produced plants.
   • The tissue culture plantlets Are free from diseases/pathogens.
   • It is possible to multiply plants that are difficult to propagate by cuttings or other traditional Methods.
   • Tissue culture plants yield Better as they are produced under optimum environmentally from selected mother Plants.
3. Which crop is propagated commercially by tissue culture technique?                              Banana, Sugarcane, Potato, Bamboo, Ginger, Apple, Black Pepper, Citrus, Vanilla, Anthurium, Teak, Strawberry, Lillium, Cardamom, Mangium, Gerbera, Fig, Jatropha, Carnation, Grape, Turmeric, Orchids etc.