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Give five examples of each of the fruiting and flowering plants developed through tissue culture and mention their benefits.
Benefits of plants produced through technique of tissue culture :

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(1) Techniques of tissue culture can produce more copies of same plant with better characters. The plant grower likes to have bigger and more fruits from fruit trees. On the flowering trees, colourful flowers with good fragrance are favoured.
(2) Plants which do not depend on particular climate and local seasonal changes are produced by tissue culture methods. This helps to rise the yield in an area which otherwise may not produce a specific crop.
(3) For tissue culture, saplings and seedlings are made available throughout the year through laboratory. The limitations of getting natural seeds are not there thus planting can be done throughout the year.
(4) Tissue culture techniques create the plants of uniform size, shape and yield. Since they are exactly alike, it becomes beneficial.
(5) In lesser time period, the crops reach maturity.
(6) The crops are pest and disease resistant.
(7) Tissue culture techniques are cost effective and easy to carry out.

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Updated on:21/07/2023

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