Question

A banana herb is virus infected describe the method that will help in obtaining healthy banana plants from the diseased plant

Answer 1

Meristematic rich zones remains in continuous state of cell division, so they are never get affected by virus infection.These tissues as an explant are placed on nutrient/ culture medium.

Answer 2

Tissue culture is used to help in obtain healthy banana.

Explanation:

• Tissue culture is a techinque for used healthy organs and obtain good plants.

• Meristem culture is the method by which healthy banana plants can be obtained from a virus infected plant.
• The apical and axillary meristems are free of virus.
• The meristem is removed from the   plant   and   grown   in   vitro by micropropagation.
• The plants produced are virus - free.