Edible bananas do not produce seeds and are traditionally grown vegetatively through suckers (5 to 10 in number depending on the variety). Thus low rate of multiplication limits this method severely. In the recent years, tissue culture propagation of banana through shoot tip as well as floral aspices has been utilized to increase banana production.
The process involves initiation of cultures from sterilized shoot tips obtained from the parent banana plant, shooting and rooting in the test tube, primary hardening in the laboratory, secondary hardening in the nursery and plating in the field.
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
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