Plant Tissue Culture

Basics

• Cell and/or tissue culture of plants
• Uses the pluripotency of some stem cells in certain areas of plants to effectively clone them

Used for

• Plant Duplication
• Plant Archiving
• Plant Production (ie 1 plant to 100 sell/donate-able plants)

Needs

• Plant
• Agar
• Clean Enviroment
• Sterile Tools
• Greenhouse/Controlled Growth Area

See Also

• Agar
• Lab Stuff Section of the "Construction Sets" page

Useful Links

• Wikipedia Page on Plant tissue culture
• Short video by "Make: (Magezine)" on Plant tissue culture
• Essentially a short class on Plant tissue culture (person talking + powerpoint)