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.