Q.61 “Give me a living cell of any plant and I will give you a thousand plants of the same type” Is this only a slogan or is it scientifically possible? Write your comments and justify them.

It is scientifically possible to grow thousand plants from a living cell of any plant and this

process is called micropropagation, The property of plant cells that helped them to grow

into a new plant is totipotency.

Micropropagation is the use of plant cell culture to regenerate large number of plants. This

results in genetically identical plants end is also called clonal propagation

Hence, the desirable characters are kept constant for many generations. Micropropagation

Is widely used! in forestry and in loricilture Plants can be ablained throughout the year

undor eantrallod conditions.