PLANT CELL CLUTURE AND APPLICATIONS
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What is the main feature of suspension cultures? Give an example.
Which Plant is taxol derived from and what is its use?
To a stationary phase cell culture, a dose of hormone was added. No change in
growth of cells resulted .Explain why?
Name the bacterium toxin, which is used to engineer crops resistant to bollworms.
What is the main feature of suspension cultures? Give an example.
Why is ‘golden rice’ nutritionally superior to normal rice?
What is meant by golden rice? In what why, it is different from normal rice?
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(i) Rapid multiplication of plants by tissue culture techniques in referred to
as…….
(ii) Gottlieb Haberlandt is known as father of ……………
(iii) The most commonly employed gene transfer method in plants is
………(transfer through Agrobacterium tumefacians).