One method that could be used to produce large quantities of only these beneficial plants is through cloning. Tissue culture techniques can be used to take cells from the desirable plant and grow them into identical copies, or clones. This way, an exact replica of the desired plant can be created, without having to rely on natural methods of plant reproduction, such as pollination. Cloning can be a highly effective method for producing large quantities of uniform, high-quality plants with desirable traits, such as those found in the new variety of rice plant.