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Tissue culture propagation
Hey all -
How does everyone feel about tree propagation through tissue culture? Call
me paranoid, but I'm a bit leary of it. Seems to me that it would greatly
reduce genetic diversity, and even if a particular strain were bred to
resist the disease of the moment, it would seem to be particularly
vulnerable to being wiped out by a disease of the future.
I don't feel tissue culture is in the same league with propagation from
cuttings, not only because the cuttings one could get from a single tree
would be limited, but also the individual branches of a tree contain
slightly different genetic material, do they not? (hence branches which
have seedless fruit, etc.)
Any comments about this would be appreciated.
= Lee =
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Lee A. Flier
lflier@mindspring.com
http://lflier.home.mindspring.com
Atlanta and Ellijay, Georgia, U.S.A.
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