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Plant cell culturing enables us to obtain plant clones and produce biomolecules under controlled conditions. The same principle can be applied to the harvesting of extracellular vesicles (EVs). These nanosized structures are key players in cell communication and stress response by carrying, protecting, and delivering important biomolecules. Raising interest in the scientific community, EVs have been successfully tested as nanocarriers for therapeutics and biotechnology. However, despite their potential, there remains a gap in research on scalable, reliable sources for EV production. Our goals were to optimize EV production and isolation from induced poplar callus cell lines (Populus tremula \u00d7 P. alba) and load these with RNA to validate their functionality as nanocarriers. We were able to isolate 2.5 \u00d7 1010 EVs\/g, highlighting the potential for these lines to be mass-produced. 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