Tissue culture technique can produce infinite number of new plants from a small parental tissue.The economic importance of the technique is in raising

Options

A. Genetically uniform population identical to the original parent
B. Homozygous diploid plants
C. Development of new species
D. Variants through picking up somaclonal variations

Answer

A

Explanation

The method of producing thousands of plants through tissue culture is called micro-propagation. Each of these plants will be genetically identical to the original plant from which they were grown, i.e. they are somaclones Many important food plants like tomato, banana, apple have been produced on commercial scale using this method