Micropropagation or tissue culture is the practice of rapidly multiplying plant stock material to produce many progeny plants, using modern plant tissue culture methods. Micropropagation Micropropagation is the first and major commercial application of tissue culture techniques. It is currently used for a large variety of herbaceous and woody plant species including forest trees, through enhanced axillary bud formation, organogenesis, and/or somatic embryogenesis. In vitro propagation of pathogen-free, elite, selected, or recalcitrant genotypes is carried out in four distinct stages: (1) explant establishment stage, (2) regeneration and proliferation stage ... Aseptic method of clonal propagation is called as Micropropagation and it offer the advantage of large number of true-to-type plantlets can be produced with relatively short time and space from a single individual. Learn what micropropagation is, how it differs from tissue culture, and what are the methods and stages involved in this artificial process of producing plants. Find out the advantages and disadvantages of micropropagation and some examples of plants that can be propagated by this technique.
