Question

What is Micropropagation? Write the methods involved with suitable examples.

Answer 1

Micropropagation is an artificial tissue culture technique for plant propagation in which the plants are produced by asexual means of reproduction or vegetative reproduction. In this method, a tissue is taken from a plant and grown artificially to produce plantlets that are genetically identical to the parent.

Methods of micro propagation:

i) Meristem culture

ii) Callus culture

iii) Suspension culture

iv) Embryo culture

v) Protoplast culture