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  • From: Lee Flier <lflier@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Tissue culture propagation
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:33:30 -0500

Hey all -

How does everyone feel about tree propagation through tissue culture? Call
me paranoid, but I'm a bit leary of it. Seems to me that it would greatly
reduce genetic diversity, and even if a particular strain were bred to
resist the disease of the moment, it would seem to be particularly
vulnerable to being wiped out by a disease of the future.

I don't feel tissue culture is in the same league with propagation from
cuttings, not only because the cuttings one could get from a single tree
would be limited, but also the individual branches of a tree contain
slightly different genetic material, do they not? (hence branches which
have seedless fruit, etc.)

Any comments about this would be appreciated.

= Lee =


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Lee A. Flier
lflier@mindspring.com
http://lflier.home.mindspring.com
Atlanta and Ellijay, Georgia, U.S.A.




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