Re: Plant propagation and cloning
In a message dated 11/27/99 8:56:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
cucurbyte@hotmail.com writes:
> Is anyone doing research in AG plant cloning or propagation at the moment?
> There was some talk about it on this list a while back. Please respond
> privately.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
I was one of the people that started the stuff about this before....most
poeple were saying the "clones" would have to be "cuttings" from an exsisting
plant, since it would apparantly be closer to a "clone" than an actual clone
would. I was trying top get some interest in cloning a 567.5 Mombert, since
right now it seems to be the most genetically consistant plant we have.
Growing clones in the same and duifferent climates would reveal vast amounts
of information about what is genetic, and what is cultural. What works, what
doesn't. What REALLY decides what makes a pumpkin "big". Stuff that is only
guessed at now. I talked a lot about this with Harold last year or so, he
said it was possible for him to get a clone of a plant done, but like I said,
there were a lot of barriers, like the fact that he thought a cutting would
be more of a clone than a clone would. I personally thought that it wouldn't,
since it would basically still just be a vine off of one plant, and we all
know that different vines of a plant, as well as different flowers, etc., all
produce different results, even under the same environmental and cultural
conditions. A true clone should (I would think) put out the SAME flowers at
the SAME places, with the same genetics in each flower, etc., unless of
course, altered by environmental factors. (But sdo we know if environmental
factors play a part in determining which fruit does what, or where the males
are, etc.)? Having true clones would certainly be the biggest gain in
information in the history of pumpkin growing. We would get more info in one
season than we have in the last 15-20 years.
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