Question

Write down the benefits of plants grown through tissue culture.

Answer 1

The benefits of plants grown through tissue culture are as follows:

1. High class varieties of crops have been developed through the technique of tissue culture.
2. Genetic improvement of the plants has become possible due to tissue culture, moreover, these characters can be inherited to the next generation.
3. The benefits of tissue culture in fruiting and flowering plants is the incorporation of desirable characters like disease and pest resistance by various biotechnological techniques.
4. Uniform growth, early maturity and high yields may also be obtained by tissue culture techniques.
5. In the case of fruiting plants, it helps produce non-cracking fruits of uniform size.