Tissue culture

Cards (2)

  • Describe the process of tissue culture?
    > Produces large amounts of genetically identical plants
    > Take a plant want to clone and divide it into hundreds of tiny pieces
    > These small groups of cells are then incubated with plant hormones
    > Conditions used must be sterile
  • What are the benefits of tissue culture?
    > Used commercially in plant nurseries- gardeners can be certain of the characteristics they will get eg colour
    > Also useful to preserve rare species of plants