AG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Tissue Culture, Grafting, The Roots
8 Oct 2020
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Plants with desirable root characteristics but with undesirable products may be used to produce desirable products for example lemon-orange graft. They facilitate the changing of the top of the tree from being undesirable to desirable. They make it possible to grow more than one type of fruit or flower on the same plant. They help to propagate clones that cannot be propagated in any other way. They help to shorten the maturity period. It is the process by which a part of a plant is induced to produce roots while still attached to the mother plant. Once the roots have been produced, the stem is then cut off and planted. Tissue culture is a biotechnology used in cloning vegetatively propagated plants. It is based on the ability of plant tissue (or cells) to regenerate other parts of the plant. The tissues are derived from shoot tips where cells are undergoing rapid cell division and are not differentiated.
