Question:

Callus is

Updated On: Jul 31, 2023
  • Undifferentiated mass of tissue
  • Root formation in culture media
  • Plant hormones
  • Plant byproduct
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 A developing mass of disorganised plant parenchyma cells is known as a callus. Plant tissue culture is where it is mostly employed. In other terms, a callus is essentially a mass of undifferentiated tissue. 

Soft tissue known as a callus surrounds an injury or wound on a plant's surface and is essential to recovery. Cambium cells give rise to a callus. Few of the cells that make up a callus may group together to form forming points, some of which grow into roots while others create stems and leaves. So a callus has the potential to regrow an entire plant.

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A mass of disorganised cells known as a plant callus is generated from plant tissue and employed in biological research and biotechnology. A plant wound is covered by callus cells.

Plant tissues are plated into in vitro tissue culture media following surface sterilisation to induce callus development.

Auxins, cytokinins, and gibberellins—plant development regulators—are added to the medium to start callus formation or somatic embryogenesis

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