Tissue culture technique can produce infinite number of new plants from a small parental tissue. The economic importance of the technique is in raising
The method of producing thousands of plants through tissue culture is called micropropagation. Each of these plants will be genetically identical to the original plant from which they were grown, i.e., they are somaclones. Many important food plants like tomato, banana, apple, etc., have been produced on commercial scale using this method.