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Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
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Virus free plants can be formed by meristem cutlure.
The reason behind this is that virus cannot propagate in
rapidly dividing cells, so meristematic zones of plant
always remain virus free.
For other options,
• Protoplast fusion technique is used for making
somatic hybrids.
• Somatic cell culture technique is used to propagate
plants from somatic cells using nutrient medium and
combination of hormones.
• Callus culture is undifferentiated mass of tissue.
Growing callus from plant organs is called callus
culture.