Enhancement of Food Production — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Applications of tissue culture are as follows:

1. Production of healthy plants from diseased plants using apical meristems as explants.
2. Production of stress resistant plants.
3. Production of haploid plantlets by pollen culture.
4. Production of secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, enzymes, hormones, etc.
5. Multiplication of rare and endangered plants.
6. Production of somaclonal variants.
7. Use of micropropagation techniques to produce large number of genetically identical plants.
8. Protoplast culture
9. Tissue culture has applications in forestry, agriculture, horticulture, genetic engineering and physiology.