Abstract
Aseptic culture of plant organs, tissues, cells and protoplasts has contributed much towards an understanding of the functions of nutrient elements, vitamins and hormones in processes of growth and differentiation. Probably the most important economic use to which plant tissue culture has been put so far is in the propagation of plants and the elimination of virus and other diseases from valuable clones, thus facilitating the risk-free interchange of plant breeding material.
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