Multiple choice

Virus free plants can be obtained from virus-infected plants by:

  1. Protoplast technology

  2. Culturing root tissue

  3. Culturing shoot apices

  4. None of the above methods
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Shoot apical meristems are often free of viruses even in infected plants because the virus cannot keep pace with the rapid cell division in the meristematic tissue.

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