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Question
Write down the benefits of plants grown through tissue culture.
Solution
The benefits of plants grown through tissue culture are as follows:
- High class varieties of crops have been developed through the technique of tissue culture.
- Genetic improvement of the plants has become possible due to tissue culture, moreover, these characters can be inherited to the next generation.
- The benefits of tissue culture in fruiting and flowering plants is the incorporation of desirable characters like disease and pest resistance by various biotechnological techniques.
- Uniform growth, early maturity and high yields may also be obtained by tissue culture techniques.
- In the case of fruiting plants, it helps produce non-cracking fruits of uniform size.
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