Micropropagation

<p>Micropropagation or tissue culture is the practice of rapidly multiplying plant stock material to produce many <a href="/facts/Offspring/v7LD4qBl">progeny</a> plants, using modern <a href="/facts/Plant_tissue_culture/6mWzTuyC">plant tissue culture</a> methods.
</p><p>Micropropagation is used to multiply a wide variety of plants, such as those that have been <a href="/facts/Genetically_modified/vwdlDR61">genetically modified</a> or bred through conventional <a href="/facts/Plant_breeding/GFlyFbSK">plant breeding</a> methods. It is also used to provide a sufficient number of <a href="/facts/Plantlets/hpkALPXe">plantlets</a> for planting from seedless plants, plants that do not respond well to <a href="/facts/Vegetative_reproduction/Y6xlN48g">vegetative reproduction</a> or where micropropagation is the cheaper means of propagating (e.g. <a href="/facts/Orchidaceae/UKmu0DhW">Orchids</a>). <a href="/facts/Cornell_University/FGyXuXeI">Cornell University</a> botanist <a href="/facts/Frederick_Campion_Steward/Fk4TlM4c">Frederick Campion Steward</a> discovered and pioneered micropropagation and <a href="/facts/Plant_tissue_culture/6mWzTuyC">plant tissue culture</a> in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Micropropagation