What are the advantages of tissue culture?

Explanation

Micropropagation: The method of rapid vegetative propagation of desired plants is called micropropagation. Large number of medicinal, ornamental and forest plants can be produced through this technique.
2. Production of virus free plants: Virus free or disease free plants can be produced through meristem culture, as the apical meristems are devoid of virus.
3. Androgenic haploid plants: Haploid plants can be produced through anther or pollen culture. Diploid homozygous plants can be produced from the haploid plants by doubling the chromosome numbers.
4. Induction and selection of mutants: Mutations are induced in the cell cultures and the mutants are then, subjected to herbicides, toxins etc. The mutant cells that show resistance are selected and grown by tissue culture to raise the resistant varieties.