Scientists are working to create new and robust methods to clone some economic species and some rare species of vanilla by tissue culture. The study concentrates on the most common cultivated vanilla orchid, Vanilla planifolia .
April 20, 2011 11:45 pm | Updated 11:45 pm IST
MANGALORE:Vanilla beans displayed as part of the National seminar and exhibition on Vanilla in Pilikula Nisarga Dhama near Moodshedde village on Sunday 15th Febraury 2009 Photo: R_Eswarraj
Scientists are working to create new and robust methods to clone some economic species and some rare species of vanilla by tissue culture. The study concentrates on the most common cultivated vanilla orchid, Vanilla planifolia .
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