Exporting tissue culture plants is not simply a matter of placing sterile plantlets in bottles, packing them into boxes, and shipping them overseas. Although tissue culture plants, or in vitro plantlets, are grown on sterile agar medium, contain no soil, do not use natural growing media, and are kept in sealed containers, many countries still classify them as live plants, plants for planting, or plant propagation material under plant quarantine regulations. For this reason, p