The benefits arising by the use of Tissue culture banana plantlets over conventional suckers are:
High yielding progenies of true-to type, uniform elite clones of different varieties available in large quantities in tissue culture process.
Tissue culture banana plantlets are Viral (Virus Indexing By National Research Center for Banana, Trichy, ICAR) and disease free at the time of planting and the same conditions can be maintained by proper crop management.
Tissue culture vigor in the plantlets manifests better growth and performance in the field.
Availability of tissue culture plantlets are not constrained by seasonal variation.
Uniform maturity for the harvest of the fruits.
Ratoon crop is a unique feature of Tissue culture plants.