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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

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.
>