How to become a plant tissue culture technician

Official title: Plant tissue culture technician

Also called: Artificial breeding technician (plant), Seed analysis technician

Plant tissue culture technician provides technical support in the initiation of explants from mother plants, transfer of existing plant tissue cultures, selection of appropriate media for optimal plant culture growth, micropropagation, and also implements sterile techniques with minimal contamination.

Main tasks

• Preparing materials and equipment for experiments, tests and analyses
• Collecting and preparing specimens such as soils, plant or animal cells, tissues or parts or animal organs for experiments, tests and analyses
• Assisting with and performing experiments, tests and analyses and applying methods and techniques such as microscopy, histochemistry, chromatography, electrophoresis and spectroscopy
• Analysing samples of seeds for quality, purity and germination rating

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Horticultural technician
• Farming technician (animal production)
• Biological technician
• Clinical research coordinator

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Questions people ask

Will AI change the work of a plant tissue culture technician?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026