Breeding of Vegetable, Spice and Tuber crops (2+1)

Meristem culture

• Regeneration of a plant from tissues of an actively dividing organ like stem tip, root tip or vegetative bud.
• Aseptic culture of shoot apical meristem on nutrient media for the production of complete plant.
• Apical meristems are excised from the shoot tip and placed on media.
• Meristem is not capable of growing independently unless some leaves primordial are retained below it.
• By this method plants can be rapidly multiplied, regenerated plants are genetically similar to the donar plants and pathogen free plants especially plants free from viruses can be produced.