Recognition of Tissue Culture
Production Facilities
Certification of Tissue Culture
Raised Plants
Capacity Building /
Training
About the System
Plant Tissue Culture
Technology
Plant Tissue Culture Technology offers great promise for the production of quality
planting material on account of disease free and true to type/ genetically uniform plants produced
through micropropagation techniques. The need for a certification programme for the tissue culture
plants is imperative since inadvertent micropropagation of virus infected plants will not only
result in its poor performance, but also in undesirable spread of viruses wherever such plants are
grown. Also, failure to use prescribed standard protocols will result in variations in the plants
produced.
National Certification System for Tissue Culture Raised Plants (NCS-TCP) is being implemented by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India since year 2006, as per the Gazette of India Notification under the Seeds Act...