Plant Tissue Culture/Micropropagation

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  • Many commercially grown house plants are cloned with tissue culture techniques or micropropagation; produces plants that don’t naturally reproduce asexually or hybrids that don’t breed and are difficult to grow from seed
  • Often used for ornamental and rare plants e.g. orchids, can be used to produce very large numbers of genetically identical, disease-free plants from a small amount of plant tissue with desired features