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Plant cell and tissue culture were not expected to provide a useful source of variation for crop improvement. The growth of plant cells in vitro and their regeneration into whole plants is an asexual process, involving only mitotic division of the cell. The expected result was clonal multiplication of genetically uniform plants. This expectation has formed the basis of the micropropagation industry and provided a technical basis for genetic manipulation in plants. The occurrence of uncontrolled variation during the culture process was largely unexpected and undesired.
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Karp, A. (1994). Origins, Causes and Uses of Variation in Plant Tissue Cultures. In: Vasil, I.K., Thorpe, T.A. (eds) Plant Cell and Tissue Culture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2681-8_6
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