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Tissue culture technique can produce indefinite number of new plants from a small parental tissue. The economic importance of technique is in raising

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Variants through picking up somaclonal variations.
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Genetically uniform population of an elite species.
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Homozygous diploid plants.
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Development of new species.
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The correct option is C Variants through picking up somaclonal variations.
All plants regenerating from the tissue culture are not exactly the replicas of a parental form. There are variations among new plants formed which is known as Somaclonal variations. That way, variety of new traits/alleles can be obtained from small parental tissue.

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