A technique of growing large pieces of tissue (explant) from different parts of a plant in semisolid or liquid medium under aseptic conditions. After the culture, masses of undifferentiated tissue are produced or plants are regenerated.
the use of specialized methods to mass produce plants starting with small amounts of plant tissue.
The growing of masses of unorganized cells on agar or in liquid suspension. Useful for the rapid asexual multiplication of plants.
Also called cell culture, inflorescent culture, meristem culture or micropropagation. Method of propagation which reproduces African Violets from meristem cells. The method involves taking a tissue culture from the leaf stems and cultivating new plantlets in an agar medium which been fortified with growth hormones. While a leaf cutting may produce two or three new plantlets, it only takes a square centimeter of meristem cells to produce thousands. African Violets can also be reproduced from seed, peduncle cuttings, division, separation and by rooting a sucker.
In vitro methods of propagating cells from animal or plant tissue (see in vitro).
a technique in which portions of a plant or animal are grown on an artificial culture medium. (Also: in vitro culture.) - in vitro methods of propagating cells from animal or plant tissue. [CUB
A technique for growing cells from multicellular organisms in a liquid or solid culture medium for research.
Growth of cells in the laboratory for scientific studies.
Material made by culturing certain animal or plant cells under appropriate conditions to maintain them. Used for cultivating other organisms, such as viruses, in vitro. Also called cell culture.
A process involving the separation of cells from each other and their growth in a container of liquid nutrients .
Growing of biopsied tissue outside of the body (in vitro) in a sterile laboratory environment that provides a nutritious medium to stimulate growth. Back to glossary index
Français] The cultivation of cells or tissues in an artificial environment, such as the laboratory or in vitro. Biotechnology, Tools of Biotechnology, Tissue Culture
The technique of generating plants by using cells from one plant to grow another that is genetically identical.
Originally, growth of pieces of plant or animal tissue in vitro.
In vitro growth in nutrient medium of cells isolated from tissue.
Growing plant or animal tissues or cells in test tubes or other laboratory glassware, without other contaminating organisms, for propagation, chemical production and medical research.
A general term used to describe the culture of cells, tissues or organs in a nutrient medium under sterile conditions.
It is the process of growing a plant in the lab from cells rather than seeds. This technique is used in traditional plant breeding as well as when using techniques of agricultural biotechnology.
the production of new plants from small amounts of plant tissue under carefully controlled laboratory conditions
a preparation made for the growth, storage, maintenance or transport of cells.
The propagation of tissue removed from organisms in a laboratory environment that has strict sterility, temperature and nutrient requirements.
the process of regeneration of a plant from single cells, isolated embryos or small bits of plant tissue on liquid or solid media.
the growth of cells as tissue in a special medium. While the properties of tissue in culture differs in some ways from tissues in the body, particularly in lacking many of the protective mechanisms of the whole animal, tissue culture research can provide valuable data at relatively low cost.
The technique of culturing cells on a sterile synthetic media. There are two general methods use to propagate plants -- micropropagation and adventitious propagation.
The maintenance or growth of tissues, in vitro, in a way that may allow differentiation and preservation of their architecture and/or function.
Tissue cultures are the simplest way to obtain a mycelial Culture. A tissue Culture is essentially a Clone of a mushroom. Clone is defined as an identical duplicate of an organism. The basic procedure is to sterilely remove a piece of the mushroom Cap or Stem, and place it on an Agar plate. After a week to ten days, Mycelium grows from the tissue and colonizes the Agar. Great care should be taken to select a Fruiting body of the highest quality, size, color, shape or any highly desired characteristic.
A very broad term used to define the technology of propagating living cells in culture medium. See In vitro.
Tissue culture refers to the growth of tissues and/or cells separate from the organism. In 1907 the American zoologist Ross Granville Harrison demonstrated the growth of frog nerve cell processes in a medium of clotted lymph. This term usually is used in the context of animal tissue culture, while the more specific term plant tissue culture is used for plants.