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[Joe and Ellen Hecksel <jhecksel@voyager.net>]

Mark Lee wrote:

> I would be interested in digging up a copy of that paper.  Can you please
> tell us where it is published.


I ran across it in a book with a title something like "Emerging 
Techniques in Plant Breeding", circa 1987.  I went looking in the 
infamous Hecksel archives.  Trivia:  The second to last scene in Raiders 
of the Lost Ark, "Experts, Dr Jones, TOP experts!" had a film clip of 
the Hecksel archives.

I will look again after I replenish the batteries in my flash light.


> -Mark Lee, Seattle
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Joe and Ellen
> Hecksel
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 1:43 PM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Selective Cuttings
>
>
>
>
> > mIEKAL wrote
> >
> > My understanding is YES you can make a selective cuttings...
>
>
> I saw an academic paper out of University of Minnesota where researchers
> took Burbank Russet potato meristems.  They used enzymes to dissolve the
> lump to the individual cell level.  They then grew plantlets out of each
> cell.
>
> They saw wide variation in each plant with regard to potato shape,
> blight resistance, etc.  They postulated that complex plants, especially
> older ones, are really mosaics of cells.  They only appear uniform when
> viewed from a macroscopic distance...just like most high elevation shots
> of crowds look similar, regardless of the team's colors.
>
> The researches also suggested that this might be a good way to select
> disease resistance without going through sexual propagation.  Their
> thinking being that you were less likely to lose quality in the fruit/tuber.
>
> Figs were one of the first fruits domesticated.  I suppose some of the
> clones might be several thousand years old.  That is a long time for UV
> and background radiation to meddle with the DNA and create the "mosaic"
> described the the U. Minn researchers.
>
>
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