Plant Tissue Culture Project

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Plant Tissue Culture Project
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What is Plant Tissue Culture?

• Plant tissue culture is a form of asexual
  propagation of plants under laboratory
  conditions.

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Why Plant Tissue Culture

• It has made significant contributions in
• The production of plant material
• Plant breeding
• Gene banks
• The production of chemical compounds
• True to parent plant

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How is Plant Tissue Culture Done?

• It is grown on a special culture medium (that is
  not a soil mix) which supports its growth and
  development.
• The medium can be either semisolid, such as agar,
  or liquid, such as purified water.
• Get the most plants in short time

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Microorganisms and Plant Tissue Culture

• In the practice of plant tissue culture,
  microorganisms are called contaminants because
  of their harmful effects on plant growth in
  vitro.
• Six potential sources of contamination in the
  plant tissue culture lab are
• Air
• Water
• Growth Media
• People
• Equipment
• Plant Material

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Growing plants without soil???
Tissue Culture uses a small portion of the
plant and grows it in a nutrient rich, sterile
environment. Agar the gel that plants
are grown in
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• Once the small
• plants have begun
• growing, they can be
• transplanted into
• soil.

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• All of the small plants will eventually become
  larger and salable producing profit.