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Understanding genetic modification - Cellular Biology - by Sebanti Ghosh
Plant Tissue Culture: Advantages and ApplicationsDespite the great advancements in science and technology, the foundations of modern civilization are till date dependent on plants, for the basic necessities like food and clothing. Conventional plant breeding, involving human interference in selection of natural resources, has given us the present day improved variety of food crops, cereals, medicinal herbs and other plants. However, breeding results in random selection of parental traits. Genetic transformation must be resorted to in order to ensure that a particular desired character, or genetic trait, definitely gets incorporated in the progeny plants. Using methods of pant tissue culture, selected superior clones of valuable horticulture crops can be rapidly propagated for commercial production. Thus, plant tissue culture now has direct commercial applications as well as value in basic research into cell biology, genetics and biochemistry. Applications include:
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- Tags: cloning , genetics , horticulture , plant tissue culture , transformation in plants , novel crops , and genetic modification
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