Gently wash all the medium from the leaves and roots with distilled water, and transplant them to small, clean pots of African violet planting soil. To maintain the high humidity the plantlets are used to in the capped tubes, put the small pots in a larger container. Add 1 or 2 cm of water in the bottom of the large container, and cover it with cellophane wrap. Each day fold back more and more of the cover. In 1 or 2 weeks, the plants will be acclimated to room conditions.
Tissue culture is a true frontier of applied science.
There is no indication yet of a limit to what the techniques can achieve. For example, amaranth, a South American grain used by the Aztecs, holds great promise as a food source, especially for countries where the diet consists mainly of grain and vegetables. Amaranth is naturally higher in protein than either corn or wheat and is abundant in lysine, an uncommon plant amino acid. They also make excellent subjects for further research. Because the clones genes are identical, experiments investigating the effects of variables give more clear-cut results.