ARTIFICIAL SEEDS TECHNOLOGY: A REVIEW

Abstract

Artificial seeds are usually defined as artificially wrapped bodily embryos or other plant parts such as cotyledon buds, cell aggregates, additional buds or other micro vesicles, provided they have the ability to be grown as seeds and grow into a plant under laboratory or out-of-vitro conditions. Synthetic seed production is a suitable way to expand on a large scale for multi-copy commercial production. If micro propagation through artificial seeds can be exploited on a large scale, the germination of millions of plants in a few days may become commercially profitable in the near future. And economically rival real seeds. In addition, the use of this technique saves the space, medium and time required by traditional tissue culture methods. The production of artificial seeds has significant advantages over traditional tissue culture methods. Artificial seeds are relatively inexpensive in production and are easy to handle, germinate and transport. They can also be stored for a long time using drying and cryopreservation technologies.   

Keywords

• technology
• artificial seeds
• tissue culture