Question

Plants raised through tissue cultures are clones of the ‘parent’ plant. Discuss the utility of these plants.

Answer 1

Utility of cloned plants:

• Cloned plants maintain the genetic uniformity and thus the most desirable traits of the parent plant, e.g., all offspring derived by tissue culture of a crop plant resistant to a specific disease will be resistant to that particular disease.
• Growth of cloned plants is faster and predictable.
• Cloned plants produce the same amount of yield as that of the parent plant.