Question

Tissue culture in useful in

• A. Making plant body tissues
• B. Developing hybrids
• C. Culturing embryoids and improvement of crops
• D. All of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is D All of the above

Tissue culture is the growth of tissues or cells separate from the organism. Plant tissue culture is concerned with the growing of entire plants from small pieces of plant tissue, cultured in medium. The tissue culture methods of plant propagation, known as micropropagation utilizes the culture of apical shoots, axillary buds and meristems on suitable nutrient medium. The benefits of micropropagation method are as follows

a) Rapid multiplication of superior clones can be carried out throughout the year, irrespective of seasonal variations,

b) Multiplication of disease free plants e.g., virus free plants of sweet potato, cassava,

c) Multiplication of sexually derived sterile hybrids,

d) It is a cost effective process as it requires minimum growing space.