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What is tissue culture? What are its disadvantages? |
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Answer» Tissue culture is the production of new plants from a small piece of plant.Tissue removed from the growing tips of a plant in a growth medium or culture solution is called tissue culture.Disadvantages of Tissue Culture:\tThe experiments involved in tissue culture are expensive because the expensive machinery and reagents required,\tThis technique is a complex procedure and it is has varied procedures depending on the plant type.\tThe experiments of tissue culture must be handled by highly trained people as the procedure requires special are and careful observation.\tAs all the plants are genetically similar, there is reduction is genetic diversity.\tThere is no introduction of any new genes in the gene pool of the whole stock.\tIf a plant is susceptible to disease, all the plants of this cloned stock will share this undesirable trait and be susceptible to that particular disease.\tOn a large scale production tissue culture methods is very expensive as the cost of the equipments are very high.\tThe procedure depends of the type of species being cultured; hence there is a need of trial and error method for any new species if there is no review about that species. It is the method of raising new plants from small pieces of plant tissue Tissue is land |
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