Question

Which propagation technique is used commercially to rapidly multiply thousands of genetically uniform, disease-free banana plantlets from a small piece of meristematic tissue placed in a sterile nutrient medium under laboratory conditions?

Q: Answer-Which propagation technique is used commercially to rapidly multiply thousands of genetically unifor...

Micropropagation, or tissue culture, uses meristematic tissue cultured in a sterile nutrient medium to rapidly multiply large numbers of genetically uniform, disease-free plantlets, a technique now widely adopted commercially for banana and several other horticultural crops.