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Strategies for Enhancement in Food Reproduction — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYStrategies for Enhancement in Food Reproduction5 Marks
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What are the advantages of tissue culture?
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Advantages of Tissue Culture:
  1. Tissue culture is a very fast technique. Thousands of plantlets can be produced in a few weeks time from a small amount of plant tissue.
  2. The new plants produced by tissue culture are disease free.
  3. Tissue culture can grow plants round the year, irrespective of weather or season.
  4. Very little space is needed for developing new plants by tissue culture.
  5. It helps to speed up the production of new varieties into the market place.
  6. In case of the seed potato industry, this technique helps in maintaining and establishing virus free stock.
So, we have understood that tissue culture is a technique which is important for transforming plants with new genes.

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