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Old 03-02-2007, 08:26 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Default Re: Going to buy the Tissue Culture kit

Erlend, imagine if you were peeling away leaves and leaf bases from the pseudostem. Eventually, you would get down to a small nub in the center, just above the corm. That will be your apical meristem. On a more mature corm, you can use the lateral meristems that have formed, but haven't yet started to grow. This way, you don't sacrifice an entire plant. Good luck with it! I just had my first TC lab at school yesterday. African Violets and Crotons . Oh well! Bananas are next...
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