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A majority of the woody plants are difficult to propagate by vegetative means. Traditional methods such as rooting of the excised branches, and grafting, although successful in some instances, still has limitations and cannot be applied for all commercially valuable species. The technique of tissue and organ culture, especially the culture of organs and buds and the in vitro regeneration of whole plants through them, could be attempted as an alternate method in the propagation in woody plants (1).
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Rao, P.S., Raghava Ram, N.V. (1983). Propagation of Sandalwood (Santalum Album Linn) using Tissue and Organ Culture Technique. In: Sen, S.K., Giles, K.L. (eds) Plant Cell Culture in Crop Improvement. Basic Life Sciences, vol 22. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4379-0_13
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