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प्रश्न
List any four applications of tissue culture.
Give four applications of tissue culture in crop improvement.
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उत्तर
Applications of tissue culture:
- Micropropagation for rapid multiplication of plants.
- Rapid clonal propagation – an explant is used to produce numerous plants of same genotype,
- From somaclonal variation, a number of useful varieties have been produced, e.g., Higher shelf life tomato,
- Virus-free plants by using meristem culture,
- Embryo which normally do not survive inside the seeds can be grown in tissue culture. Embryo rescue useful in interspecific hybridisation.
Notes
Students should refer to the answer according to their qusetion and preferred marks.
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