PLANTS
PLANT TISSUE
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I and II
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II and III
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I, II and III
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Plant tissue culture is applied in the area of plant physiological and biochemical research to study the cell cycle, metabolism in cells, nutritional, morphogenetical and developmental studies in plants.
Detailed explanation-2: -ADVERTISEMENTS: The five applications of the tissue culture are: (1) Rapid Clonal Propagation (2) Soma-clonal Variation (3) Transgenic Plants (4) Induction and Selection of Mutations and (5) Resistance to Weedicides.
Detailed explanation-3: -The method of profucing thousands of plants through tissue culture is clled micro-propagation. The capacity to eneerate a whole plant from any cell/explant is called totipotency.By tissue culture, it is not possible to achieve propagation of a large number of plants in very short durations.