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MICROPROPAGATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In micropropagation, what is the term used for the plant that has desirable features?
A
Broth plant
B
Plant X
C
Parent plant
D
Stock plant
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In this method of micropropagation, subtending leaf primordial and a meristem is placed into their respective growing media culture and allowed to grow. After some weeks, an elongated rooted plantlet is produced. Once after they reach a considerable height, these plantlets are transferred into the soil.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stock plants are the plants that will act as mother plants with the desirable characteristics for micropropagation. An explant is a part of this stock/mother plant from which tissue culture will initiate.

Detailed explanation-3: -Microenvironmentation in Micropropagation During the microenvironmentation plantlets grow either as elongated stems (where identifiable nodes help to determine cutting points) or clumps (e.g., sugarcane, where the separable shoots grow from a single point).

Detailed explanation-4: -Explant is the excised portion of plant tissue or organ which is used in tissue culture study.

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