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Micropropagation

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thumb|right|A rose plant that began as cells grown in a tissue culture

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Encyclopedic overview

14 sections
Contents
  • Steps
  • Selection of mother plant
  • Multiplication
  • Pretransplant
  • Transfer from culture
  • Methods
  • Meristem culture
  • Callus culture
  • Embryo culture
  • Protoplast culture
  • Advantages
  • Disadvantages
  • Applications
  • References

thumb|right|A rose plant that began as cells grown in a tissue culture

Micropropagation or tissue culture is the practice of rapidly multiplying plant stock material to produce many progeny plants, using modern plant tissue culture methods.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Micropropagation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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