Three main disadvantages of cloning plants are that if one plant is susceptible to a pathogen, all others will be too, vegetative propagation methods like tissue culture are labor-intensive and expensive for most crops, and tissue culture requires sterile facilities and trained staff, increasing costs.
Tres desventajas principales de la clonación de plantas son la susceptibilidad de todas las plantas clonadas a un patógeno particular si este afecta a una, el alto costo y la labor intensiva de la propagación vegetativa para la mayoría de los cultivos, y la necesidad de instalaciones estériles y personal capacitado para el cultivo de tejidos.
| Front | Give 3 main disadvantages of cloning plants? |
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| Back | -If one plant is suspectible to a particular pathogen, then so will all the others be.
-The vegetation propagation of plants using tissue culture, grafting or most other methods is very labour intensive and expensive, so is not suitable for most crop plants
-Tissue culture requires the use of sterile facilities and highly trained staff, adding to the costs |
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