Re: Discussion on Origin of Sports
- To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Discussion on Origin of Sports
- From: h*@open.org
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:16:04 -0800 (PST)
Dan:
>Do sports seem to show up in TC liners often because of the small
>pieces of plant tissue used in TC and therefore any mutated tissues
>have a better chance of not being suppressed by the dominant tissue?
You don't need to put hostas into TC to get sports. All you have to
do is aggressively propagate hostas to keep the adventitious buds
developing. Basically what the TC people are doing is just forcing a
lot of axillary buds and the BAP also forces some of the adventitious
buds. You can get pretty close to what they are going without going
through all the trouble of sterile culture, although you can't quite
match them because their plants don't go dormant.
Joe Halinar
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