Is Micropropagation The Same As Tissue Culture?
Plant tissue culture is a technique for keeping and developing plant cells, tissues, and organs in sterile conditions in a test tube under regulated environmental conditions. Explant refers to any component of a plant that has been removed and grown in a test tube under sterile circumstances in special nutritional media. Plant tissue culture is based on the ability of plants to grow a complete plant from any cell or explant (cellular totipotency). To create a new plant, single cells, plant cells without cell walls (protoplasts), parts of leaves, stems, or roots, embryo, and anther can be employed. Plant clonal propagation in closed vessels under aseptic conditions is known as micropropagation. The plants are cultivated in vitro, which means 'in glass,' inside the containers, on culture media that contains nutrients and growth regulators. Soil-grown plants, on the other hand, are referred to as in vivo. Plants propagated in vitro are smaller than plants propagated in vivo,