Plant Tissue Culture (PTC) and Its Application

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Plant Tissue Culture (PTC) and Its Application: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Protoplast Culture, Explant, Organ Culture, Cell Suspension Culture, Artificial Seed, Plant Tissue Culture Media, Sterilisation Techniques in Plant Tissue Culture and, Applications of Plant Tissue Culture

Important Questions on Plant Tissue Culture (PTC) and Its Application

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Why Cell suspension culture is better than the callus culture?

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What do you understand by artificial seeds. What inert materials are present in it?

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Auxins are used for callus induction.

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Explain the significance of virus-free plants.

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Define hardening of In vitro plantlets.

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Which of the following is used to form the seed coat in artificial seeds?

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Cell suspension culture is developed in liquid medium.

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What is plant tissue culture laboratory?

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Which of the following is used as a solidifying agent in tissue culture media?

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Techniques used to remove the microbes in nutrient medium during culture process includes:

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Identify the correct staments related to protoplast culture

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Identify the plants that are commercially propagated on a large scale using micropropagation

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Callus cells undergo differentiation and produce somatic embryos called _____.

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Name the following.

The method to avoid the growth of microbes in the nutrient medium during the tissue culture process. 

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Solidifying agent used in plant tissue culture is EDTA

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Virus free plants cannot be developed from

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Surface sterilization of explants is done by using mercuric chloride