Micropropagation

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Micropropagation

Advantages

  • Get a lot of clones of plants with desired characteristics
  • Know what the plant is going to be
  • Less likely to get a disease as everything is sterile

Disadvantages

  • Everything needs to be sterile to kill bacteria
  • Lots of people need to be employed to check if plants are good - high labour costs
  • Expensive
  • Original plant may have undesired/unknown alles that may not be expressed yet that aren't ideal

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