Looking for characteristics of a plant that are desirable - want to produce more plants of the same kind
if sexual reproduction - the offsprings will differ and so we have to use micropropagation
Process:
- Take tissue from the shoot tip or the roots
- Aseptic conditions (free from contamination)
- Cut the tissue into many small parts
- Transfer tissue to petri dish - contains nutrient agar - variety of minerals, rooting compounds and other plant hormones - to encourage growth into small clones of original plants
- In this process you make many clones of the original plant - all genetically identical to the original plant
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