Plant Tissue Culture Project

1. Plant Tissue Culture Project

2. What is Plant Tissue Culture? • Plant tissue culture is a form of asexual propagation of plants under laboratory conditions.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Once the small plants have begun growing, they can be transplanted into soil.

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