What are the advantages of tissue culture methods over the conventional method of plant breeding in crop improvement programmes?
What are the advantages of tissue culture methods over the conventional method of plant breeding in crop improvement programmes?

Solution: In crop improvement programs, tissue culture has the following advantages over traditional plant breeding methods:

        i.            Any portion of the parent plant can be used to create a new plant.

      ii.            Hundreds of plants can be grown from a little bit of tissue.

    iii.            Producing a new generation takes a short amount of time, therefore this procedure is faster than the traditional method.

    iv.            Since offspring are clones of parent plants, producing pure lines takes less time. It is not necessary to wait 4 to 5 generations to achieve this.

      v.            This method does not necessitate any land. As a result, this method uses fewer resources than the traditional way.

    vi.            This procedure can be used to recover healthy plants from diseased plants. As a result, creating disease-resistant plants is rather simple with this strategy.