Kiranjeet Kaur Biotechnologist

Production of virus Free Plant Techniques to Eradicate viruses M ost of the propagated by vegetative are systematically infected by viruses. It can reduce the yield or reduce the quality of plants and leads to death. To Optimize the yield of the crop it is necessary to eradicate these viruses. Plants infected with bacteria or fungi may respond to bactericidal and fungicidal treatment but there is no commercially available treatment to cure virus-infected plants. The distribution of viruses in plants varies differently, the apical meristem generally free to carry a very low concentration of viruses. High metabolic activity in the actively dividing meristem cells and a high endogenous auxin level in shoot species may be the inhibitory factors for virus multiplication. Techniques to eradicate viruses are : Thermotherapy ( Heat Treatment of plants) Meristem-tip culture Chemical Suspension( Chemical treatment on media) Other in vitro methods  Thermotherapy( Heat Treatment of ...