Benefits of plant tissue culture

Answer 1

basically yeah the economic advantages of cloning crop plants in tissue culture is that its pretty cheao and easy to do innit.

Answer 2

Just as every person is different and unique, so is each plant. Some have traits like better color, yield, or pest resistance. For years, scientists have looked for methods to allow them to make exact copies of these superior individuals.

Plants usually reproduce by forming seeds through sexual reproduction. That is, egg cells in the flowers are fertilized by pollen from the stamens of the plants. Each of these sexual cells contains genetic material in the form of DNA. During sexual reproduction, DNA from both parents is combined in new and unpredictable ways, creating unique plants.

This unpredictability is a problem for plant breeders as it can take several years of careful greenhouse work to breed a plant with desirable characteristics. Many of us think that all plants grow from seeds. However, researchers have now developed several methods of growing exact copies of plants without seeds. And they are now doing this through a method called "tissue culture".

Answer 3

* Large numbers of plants can be produced from a single, or a few stock plants. * Micropropogated plants can be produced at any time of the year, and so can be sold out of season at a higher price.

* Plant diseases can be avoided as meristematic tissue is virus free and bacteria free - it lacks vascular tissue so it is much less likely to get disease. * Plants such as orchids which are difficult to grow from seed in large amounts can be produced in large amounts and sold at a reasonable price * Plants can be designed to order - for example the plant Ficus which can be produced in a single or multi-stemmed form * Standardising growing condirions means standard batches of plants are produced - a sales advantage * Micropropogated plants are small and lightweight so can be freighted easily and cheaply * Some fruit and nut trees have a juvenility problem where they cannot produce fruit for between 5 and 20 years - cloning by tissue culture overcomes this.

Answer 4

it means they are all genetically the same (Identicle), and means they will not have a high risk of no growing properly of being damaged if the original one isn't!

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Answer 5

by tissue culture ,thousands of plants are developed from tiny piece of plant. the plants grown are free from infection. Also these tissue culture grown plants are genetically similar(isogenic).

Answer 6

The main benefit is to be able to produce thousands of indentical copies of the original plant in a short space of time.

Answer 7

By tissue culture we can raise progenies of even those plants where the sexual cycle has broken down. By this process we can raise disease free isogenic plants.