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Cloning Plants: Tissue Culture
BACKGROUND
Tissue culture (often called micropropagation) is a special type of asexual propagation where a very small piece of tissue (shoot apex, leaf section, or even an individual cell) is excised (cut-out) and placed in sterile (aseptic) culture in a test tube, petri dish or tissue culture container containing a special culture medium.
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Tissue Culture is a method in which a few cells from the vegetative plant body are taken and kept in a nutrient medium.
Definition
the culture of plant seeds, organs, explants, tissues, cells, or protoplasts on nutrient media under sterile conditions.
Tissue culture
In this method new plants are grown by removing tissues or cells from the tips from the plants.
New plants are formed from isolated plant cells or tissues in a synthetic medium.
