Looks like this thread is really blowing wind into some sails!!
I'm elated to see all the interest everyone has into tissue culturing and bringing some of the more rare bananas into production. I have always had an interest in TC'ing but have never taken the initiative. Perhaps watching the success of our members will help convince me to find the time and space and set it up properly.
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Originally Posted by Gabe15
Iʻll try to find some pictures, but in the meantime, I made up this diagram showing basically what happens after the initiation (when tissue culture becomes micropropagation). You will come across inconsistencies in actual practice, such as dead explants, contamination, varying degrees of proliferation, size of regenerated meristems and duration between meristem regenerations. But its generally what happens, or at least the way I do it is.
NOTE: The plants do not actually get smaller and smaller, I just only had a finite working space to show the examples.
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This is great! Thanks for taking the time to create it.
BTW, I copied it over into the
banana diagrams category in the gallery.
Thread stuck by the way, everyone, so we can use it as a general reference and a place to point people to.
We do have a page in the wiki about tissue culturing, it's here:
Info:Tissue Culturing - Bananas Wiki
It's fleshing out, but these things take time. Feel free to add to it, we can use both this thread and the page in the wiki as a springboard for information.
Cheers