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Old 12-13-2012, 02:52 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: implants as a means for crossing Musa

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Originally Posted by trebor View Post
Jeeze I'm just wondering ...Reading that Nick has decided to take the TC leap, just as I was going to turn my phone off . A picture of removing one of the purified tissue scraping and putting it into a large enough syringe , then injecting it into the base of a different Musa using maybe saline solution ? I wonder if you could cross the two plants like that..
The injection would surly not damage the plant that gets the " needle " Just a thought.... I'm sure there is some type of window of opportunity when it should be done. Maybe the 2nd quarter of a sister plant growth cycle ..well before any blooming ..
I'm not sure how that would work, the cells you inject are already differentiated and so would do nothing.
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