Tropical & Subtropical Fruits

Tissue culture

Tissue culture plants

• Banana is also grown commercially by using tissue cultured plants, these plants required much care throughout the growth period compare to suckers and yields about 10-20 per cent more than suckers.


• In recent years the concept of HDP is being practiced, suckers are planted at closer spacing or planting two suckers per pit by accommodating more number of plants at specified spacing to get higher yield and reduced cost of production.
  
• The cultivar Robusta and Dwarf Cavendish spaced at 1.5 x 1.5m accommodates 4444 plants/ha is recommended by IIHR was recorded highest yield.