Facts for Prelims (FFP)
Source: Hindustan Times
Context: The forest and wildlife department of Delhi is establishing a tissue culture laboratory at the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary to generate saplings of threatened or rare native trees in the city.
- The aim is to grow endangered native trees in a controlled environment and regenerate saplings for species facing regeneration challenges.
Tissue culture is a research tool that involves growing cells or tissues in an artificial environment. It’s also called micropropagation.
Animal tissue culture
This technique involves maintaining and growing isolated cells, tissues, or organs in an artificial environment. It’s used in biomedical research to study the causes of disease.
This technique involves growing plant cells, tissues, or organs in a sterile environment. It’s used to produce clones of a plant. Under the right conditions, a single cell can be used to regenerate an entire plant.
