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What is suspension culture? Explain advantages and disadvantages of suspension culture.

Answer 1

Suspension culture is a type of culture in which single cells or small aggregates of cells multiply while suspended in agitated liquid medium. It is also referred to as cell culture or cell suspension culture.

Answer 2

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Suspension culture:

A suspension culture consists of cells and cell aggregates dispersed and growing in a moving liquid medium. During incubation, the amount of cell material increases for a limited period of time until the culture reaches a point of maximum yield of cell material.

Advantages:

• The nutrients can be continually adjustable.

• This system can be scaled for large scale production of the cells.

• A whole plant can be regenerated from the single plant cell.

Disadvantages:-

• The productivity of suspension cultures can be decreased over extended subculture periods.

• slow growth and low productivity of plant cells.

• Cells may get damaged by shear conditions.

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