vitroplant

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.