vitroplant

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word vitroplant. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word vitroplant, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say vitroplant in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word vitroplant you have here. The definition of the word vitroplant will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofvitroplant, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

Blend of in vitro +‎ plant

Noun

vitroplant (plural vitroplants)

  1. (biotechnology) An artificially propagated plant that is grown in vitro.
    • 2000, A. C. Cassells, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Methods and Markers for Quality Assurance in Micropropagation, page 214:
      The LGD medium appeared to be unsuitable for lilac vitroplant culture, resulting in yellow aerial parts, less than 5 mm in height.
    • 2002, Melhoramento, page 32:
      In order to reduce the impact of the labour that accounts for 60 to 75% in the cost price of a vitroplant, one then attends in the robotisation and the laboratories of production decided to move to the countries where the labour is cheaper.
    • 2013, Y.P.S. Bajaj, High-Tech and Micropropagation V, →ISBN, page 120:
      Exact figures for world production of vitroplants are not known, but may represent more than 50 million per annum. This would mean that plant tissue culture multiplication techniques are used more frequently in banana than in any other crop.