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How polyembryony can be commercially exploited?
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Solution
- Polyembryony increases the chances of survival of the new plants.
- Genetically uniform parental type seedlings are obtained from nucellar embryos, thus nucellar adventive polyembryony is of great significance in horticulture.
- Plantlets obtained from these embryos are disease-free.
- These embryos can be isolated and grown on embryo culture to produce clones.
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