Plant Cloning: Cuttings & Tissue Culture
Plants can be cloned easily and quickly using two main methods, ensuring identical desirable traits.
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What is Plant Cloning: Cuttings & Tissue Culture?
"Plant cloning is the process of producing a genetically identical copy of a plant through asexual reproduction or tissue culture."
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Floral Cloning
Cuttings: A traditional method used by gardeners where a piece of stem is planted to grow a new plant.
Tissue Culture: A modern method using small groups of cells from a part of a plant to grow thousands of identical ones.
Tissue culture is important for preserving rare species and for commercial nurseries.
Tissue culture is much more expensive and technical than taking cuttings, but it can produce many more plants in a shorter time.
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