World Tissue Culture Bank

From: Jill Bell godjillab at home.com> on 2001.07.28 at 20:52:01(7181) I know that this idea has probably been thought of, and it is naive on my part to think such a thing might work, but is there a way to store the type of cells of a plant that are needed to make tissue cultures? Perhaps there would be a way to have a world-owned (in the United States of course, just kidding) bank for these things so that there could be a proverbial Noah's Ark for botanical culture. What do you all think? -- Jill Bell +More Illustration, Graphic Design, Web Design and Digital Photography

From: "Derek Burch" derek at horticulturist.com> on 2001.07.29 at 00:22:55(7183) Jill, while it isn't quite what you are suggesting, you might be encouraged by the Millennium Seed Bank that Kew organised. Go to http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/conservation/seedcon.html to read about it (but be patient, the RBG Kew sites are sometimes VERY slow to load). Perhaps it could expand into your sort of genome bank eveentually . . . Derek +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 4:52 PM Subject: World Tissue Culture Bank > I know that this idea has probably been thought of, and it is naive on my > part to think such a thing might work, but is there a way to store the type > of cells of a plant that are needed to make tissue cultures? Perhaps there > would be a way to have a world-owned (in the United States of course, just > kidding) bank for these things so that there could be a proverbial Noah's > Ark for botanical culture. > What do you all think? > -- > Jill Bell > Illustration, Graphic Design, Web Design and Digital Photography > > >

Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.