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What is tissue culture?


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Tissue Culture:

  1. Tissue culture is the technique of culturing cells, or tissues in a culture medium to propagate plants.
  2. The bud, shoot apex, or some other part is used for micropropagation when vegetative propagation is not possible in a plant.
  3. This is called an explant.
  4. It provides rapid propagation of identical individuals.
  5. Usually, the plantlets obtained are disease-free.

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