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  • From: Joe and Ellen Hecksel <jhecksel@voyager.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Selective Cuttings
  • Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:09:20 -0400

Lon Rombough:

What ever happened to the U California initiative to find V. vinifera with resistance to selenium, sodium, chlorine ions, etc?

The plan was to poison grape shoots with high levels of dissolved salts and excise and clone islands of living tissue. The thinking was that these islands may have resisted poisoning due to some ion transport scheme. Ultimately, they hoped to produce rootstocks and Cabernet that could grow in land so salty that only cotton and alfalfa could currently survive.





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