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What are the advantages of tissue culture methods over the conventional method of plant breeding in crop improvement programmes?

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Tissue culture has the following advantages over the conventional method of plant breeding in crop improvement programmes:

  • The new plant can be produced by using any part of the parent plant. A small tissue can be used to produce hundreds of plants.
  • Producing a new generation takes a short period, and hence this process is faster than the conventional method.
  • Offspring are clones of parent plants, so producing pure line is less time-consuming. One need not wait for 4 to 5 generations to achieve this.
  • The land requirement is nil for this method. So, this method is less resource-intensive than the conventional method.
  • Healthy plants can be recovered from diseased plants by utilizing this method. Thus, producing disease-resistant plants is quite easy with this method.
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