Tissue culture is a valuable tool in horticulture that affects all of us,
even if we don't practice it ourselves. It's main use is in rapid
propagation of plants. If you've purchased plants like geraniums, orchids,
and many others, you may have gotten tissue cultured plants. Also, it is
sometimes confused with Genetic Engineering, but tissue culture is NOT the
same as GE.
This may seem a little esoteric, but it's really just another level of
gardening.
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From: Scott Russell
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Links for a Week
Date: Wed, Sep 20, 2000, 8:03 PM
I used to do tissue culture. When I left U Mich, where I had received the
Ph.D., I had a whole series of tiny tissue culture bottles, that I intended to
take toCalif with me and hopefully continue working with them, as they were
manioc, and I had had to get the initial manioc tissue from Florida for the
Ph.D. research I was doing, on anatomy.
Well, I found out, just before I left Mich, that my husband had deliberately
opened each bottle to contaminate it. So that was the end of that research.
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