Synthetic seed technology offers many useful advantages on a commercial scale for the propagation of a variety of crop plants, especially crops for which true seeds are not used or readily available for multiplication (e.g. potato) or the true seeds are expensive (e.g. cucumber and geraniums), hybrid plants (e.g. hybrid rice) and many vegetatively propagated plants which are more prone to infections (e.g. day lily, garlic, potato, sugarcane, sweet potato, grape ...
