Question

Who among the following introduced tissue culture method of plant propagation?
1. Norman Borlaug 
2. Gottlieb Haberlandt 
3. E. K. Janaki Ammal 
4. M. S. Swaminathan

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Gottlieb Haberlandt 

The correct answer is Gottlieb Haberlandt.

• Gottlieb Haberlandt introduced the tissue culture method of plant propagation.

• Gottlieb Haberlandt: 
  • He was an Austrian botanist.
  • He is known as the father of plant tissue culture.
  • He is known for introducing the term totipotency.
  • He conceived the concept of cell culture in 1902.

• Totipotency is the ability of a single cell to divide and produce all of the differentiated cells in an organism.
• Spores and zygotes are examples of cell totipotency, totipotency represents the cell with the greatest differentiation potential.
• Many somatic plant cells, including some fully differentiated types (e.g. leaf mesophyll), provided they contain intact nuclear, plastid, and mitochondrial genomes, have the capacity to regenerate into whole plants.

•  There are different methods of developing plants using plant tissue culture
  • Seed culture
  • Meristem culture
  • Embryo culture
  • Callus culture
  • Anther culture
  • Somatic embryogenesis
  • Protoplast culture
• Norman Borlaug is famous for the Green Revolution.
• Janaki Ammal Edavalath Kakkat was an Anglo-Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics, and phytogeography.
• Her most notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant (brinjal).