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Why might it be important to have plants form a callus before a plantlet develops?

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This is because a plant callus is composed of unorganized and undifferentiated cells that are capable of growing and differentiating into any part of a plant or a whole plant. Callus are treated with requisite plant hormones such as auxins and cytokinins to induce differentiation hence able to form a plantlet.
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