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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Blueberry plants, kitchen table tissue culture
  • Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:30:26 -0800

clhw wrote:

Is tissue culture essentially the same as cloning?
I helped a friend, a microbiologist, clone some rosemary about 15 years
ago. She set up an entire college lab room with culture trays, agitators,
etc. The plants looked beautiful as they grew. The thing was, they had no
aroma nor taste. The essential oils were not carried forward with the
cloned tissue.


tvoivozhd---something wrong with that outcome---the principal virtue of tissue culture is that the resulting plants are identical to the plant from which the tissue culture was made.

Rabbiteye blue berries do great here and they are very expensive to buy
small bushes from someone like Park Seed Company, about 15 miles away. I
have friends who have some bushes which have grown here for decades. Tissue
culture sounds like the way to go to if I want to start my own plantation
of blueberries.
Lynn

tvoivozhd----cloning and tissue culture are synonyms---tissue culture is
normally differentiated between plant tissue culture and animal tissue
culture---and the plant tissue culture further differentiated between woody,
succulants etc. Woody is harder to propagate.








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