Tissue Culture- A Boon or a Bane

Tissue culture is a process that involves exposing plant tissue to a specific regimen of nutrients, hormones under sterile or in artificial conditions outside the mother plant to produce many new plants. Each new plant is a clone of the original mother plant. This process is done over a very short period of time. Tissue culture is the growth of tissues or cells separate from the organism. This is typically facilitated via use of a liquid, semi-solid or solid growth medium such as broth or agar. Tissue culture plants are characterized by disease free growth, a more fibrous, healthier root system, a bushier branching habit and a higher survival rate.

Plant tissue culture is a widely used procedure in plant biology in which organism is planted from the explants of the living plants in a nutrient medium under aseptic conditions. There are both advantages and disadvantages of plant tissue culture.

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