MORPHOGENETIC POTENTIAL OF EXPLANT
MORPHOGENETIC POTENTIAL OF EXPLANT Ø Plant tissue culture is the in vitro aseptic culture of cells, tissues, organs, or whole plant under controlled nutritional and environmental conditions to produce the clones of plants. Ø The resultant clones are true to type of the selected genotype. The controlled condition provide the culture an environment conducive for their growth and multiplication. Ø These conditions include proper supply of nutrients, pH medium , adequate temperature and proper gaseous and liquid environment. Ø Plant tissue culture technology is being widely used for large scale plant multiplication. Apart from their use as a tool of research, plant tissue culture techniques have in recent years, become of major industrial importance in the area of plant propagation , disease elimination, plant improvement by the production of secondary metabolites. Ø Small pieces of tissue can be used to produce hundreds and thousands of plants in a continuous p