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Re: tissue culture

>Is it possible to do tissue culture on a small scale (like hobbyist vs.
>commercial size)?
>
>And..is the book 'Plants From Test Tubes', from Timber Press, any good to
>learn tissue culturing technique?
>
>Bill & Harvey
>SKID  zone 6  CT  USA

I've seen the book.  It seems to be pretty good -- thorough, detailed, and
fairly readable.  After reading it, though, I pretty much gave up on the
idea of trying it myself.  It seems that the potential problems with
contamination of culture media are so acute that they require rather
sophisticated equipment (laminar flow hoods, autoclaves, and so on) in
order to deal with them.  All this, of course, costs so much that very few
people would shell out the bucks to do it on a home-scale basis.  Plus,
tissue culture is most economical for cloning quite large numbers of
plants, far more than most gardeners would need.


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Philip Stevens
Assistant Director
Center for Cultural Studies
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA  95064
(408)459-3436
(408)459-4979 (fax)
pstevens@cats.ucsc.edu
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