Benefit of Micropropagation

Micropropagation is the practice of rapidly multiplying stock plant material to produce a large number of progeny plants, using modern plant tissue culture methods.

Micropropagation is used to multiply plants such as those that have been genetically modified or bred through conventional plant breeding methods. It is also used to provide a sufficient number of plantlets for planting from a stock plant which does not produce seeds, or does not respond well to vegetative reproduction.

Advantage 

The main advantage of micropropagation is the production of many plants that are clones of each other.Micropropagation can be used to produce disease-free plants.It can have an extraordinarily high fecundityrate, producing thousands of propaguleswhile conventional techniques might only produce a fraction of this number.It is the only viable method of regenerating genetically modified cells or cells after protoplast fusion.It is useful in multiplying plants which produce seeds in uneconomical amounts, or when plants are sterile and do not produce viable seeds or when seed cannot be stored (see recalcitrant seeds).Micropropagation often produces more robust plants, leading to accelerated growth compared to similar plants produced by conventional methods - like seeds or cuttings.