What is micropropagation ? What are the main advantages of producing plants through this technique ?
What is micropropagation ? What are the main advantages of producing plants through this technique ?

Solution:

  • Micropropagation is the method of large production of plantlets in a less time.
  • A small piece of plant tissue is cultured in a sterile medium which later develops into new plantlets.
  • An offsprings produced by this methods are the exact copy of their parent plant.
  • So, the offsprings are called as somaclones.

Advantages of micropropagation are:

  • Large production of plants in less time.
  • Offspring can be with the desired character of parent plants.