ABSTRACT
Micropropagation, also knows as in vitro or clonal plant propagation, constitutes a range of tissue and cell culture techniques to propagate true-to-type plants. Micropropagation is one of the most commercially efficient plant biotechnologies employed in agriculture as an alternative to plant reproduction by seeds (sexual or generative propagation). This practically oriented plant biotechnology has formed a basis for the development ofother useful biotechnologies such as somatic embryogenesis leading to synthetic seed biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) or transgenic seeds, plants, and crops through genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology. However, the latter have not yet been commercialized to the same extent as micropropagation.
