Question

explain anther culture

Answer 1

Anther culture is the technique by which devoloping anthers at a critical stage are excised aseptically from unopened flower bud and are cultured
on a nutrient medium where the microscopes within the cultured anther develop into callus tissue that give rise to haploid plantlets.

Answer 2

What is anther culture?

If anthers of a plant species is cultured in a suitable medium, then there will be production of haploid plants and this process is known as anther culture.

Special Points:-

➨ This culture is also known as pollen grain culture and is also called as androgenic haploid culture.

➨ This technique was first used in India to produce haploid plants of Datura innoxia by Guha and Maheshwari in 1964.

➨ Sometime diploid plants are also formed among haploid plants. Source of these diploid plants is anther wall.