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Plant tissue culture is a novel and innovative
technique to grow high quality, disease free plants quickly and in a
large quantity by culturing and maintaining plant cells or organs like
leaves, stem, root, branch shoot tip, petals, anther and pollen in
sterile, nutritionally and environmentally supportive conditions in
vitro. This technique is especially useful when the planting material is
scarce or on the edge of extinction as thousands of plants can be
produced from a single selected plant. Plants prepared using tissue
culture technique are true to type resembling the mother plant in all
traits, disease free, contains uniform growth and can be obtained
throughout the year. Moreover, harvesting period for crops prepared with
tissue culture plantations is earliest than normal. So, cultivation
using tissue culture plants imroves farmers income and make economy
stronger. The crop growth is also uniform with almost zero crop loss
due to the diseases, which consequently leads to more yield, and
thereby more profit. |