There was a lot of opposition to stem cell research even in U.S.A., based on moral grounds. This is because of the various sources for the stem cell collection for human beings.
Now stem cell research has arrived. There is at least one field where stem cell research has absolutely no objection. It is in the field of the plant kingdom.
Hybridization and grafting had been very successfully used on a mass scale. Thanks to the pioneers of IARI and the many unknown village 'scientists' who have created many new types of mangoes and vegetables.
The science of stem-cell research is highly sophisticated. The full processes of this method and propagation and marketing is advocated by many of our television channels in agricultural extension and information programmes and Indian scientists are successfully taking the results to the farmers. Banana is a very important crop in the world, particularly in India.
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