This is an absolute untruth and is ignorant to an entire side of plant breeding which brings us some of our most important ornamental plants.
Tissue culture is NOT sticking a tomato plant into a jar and waiting for it to sprout roots.
Tissue culture is a heavily funded and researched science to clone plants which are not easily (or at all) able to be cloned.
This process involves very sterile conditions and movement of plant tissue through various stages of nutrient and plant growth regulation in media. This media is usually sterile agar.
This is very newsworthy, but not for this site.
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This is an absolute untruth and is ignorant to an entire side of plant breeding which brings us some of our most important ornamental plants. Tissue culture is NOT sticking a tomato plant into a jar and waiting for it to sprout roots. Tissue culture is a heavily funded and researched science to clone plants which are not easily (or at all) able to be cloned. This process involves very sterile conditions and movement of plant tissue through various stages of nutrient and plant growth regulation in media. This media is usually sterile agar. This is very newsworthy, but not for this site.