Micropropagation: Or tissue culture is the practice

Micropropagation or tissue culture is the practice of rapidly multiplying plant stock material to produce many progeny plants, using modern plant tissue culture methods. Micropropagation Micropropagation is the first and major commercial application of tissue culture techniques. It is currently used for a large variety of herbaceous and woody plant species including forest trees, through enhanced axillary bud formation, organogenesis, and/or somatic embryogenesis. In vitro propagation of pathogen-free, elite, selected, or recalcitrant genotypes is carried out in four distinct stages: (1) explant establishment stage, (2) regeneration and proliferation stage ... In this article we will discuss about:- 1. Methods of Micro-Propagation 2. Stages of Micro-Propagation 3. Advantages 4. Commercial Uses. Multiplication of genetically identical copies of a cultivar by asexual reproduction is called clonal propagation. The in vivo clonal propagation is often difficult, expensive and even unsuccessful. Tissue culture method offers an alternative way of clonal propagation which is popularly known as micro-propagation. Here in this method a multiple number of ... Micropropagation is a specialized method of plant propagation that uses tissue culture techniques to multiply plants in large quantities. It involves the asexual reproduction of plants in a laboratory setting, and its primary objective is crop improvement and rapid vegetative propagation.