Re: 117 Citations
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- Subject: Re: 117 Citations
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 12:31:26 EST
JIm Hawes and others:
I have found these postings very informative, as we discussed these issues 15-20 years ago with the advent of hosta tissue culture and the mechanisms that produced sports thereof. We saw a lot in the early tc results which should have been documented, it was so different! Alas, it was culled and tossed. I remember when John Kulpa and my mother found "Whirlwind" - she was convinced it was tc cull material.
Your last post about the 117 references reminded me of one resource you may wish to check: Dr. Sherry Kitto at the Univ. of Delaware.
She was one of the pioneers in plant tissue culture techniques and currently teaches graduate courses in the same field: her email is kitto@udel.edu
Her web page at udel.edu provides her background.
I remember sitting down with my mother Pauline Banyai and Sherry to discuss chimeral rearrangement in hosta tissue culture, probably around 1986-1990: it was not something we could easily relate to and as such we decided to not followup our discussions.
The one comment she made which still sticks with me is this: hosta are a "different beast" in the tc plant world, with respect to all other known ( at that time )unstable species and chimeral understanding. She said hosta were the best tool to teach plant tissue culture techniques, to point out what COULD result from tissue culture - not always as predictable as other plant material.
Sounds like we are still steep in the learning curve.
Regards, bruce banyai
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