Originally Posted by mrbungalow

I see how I made myself a little diffuse here, The pressure cooker is for sterilizing utensils and media, not for the banana shoots themselves. Although that would be something to try too!



Bigdog; out of curiousity, why do the plants need to have leaves before they can be tissue cultured? I would think newly "hatched" banana seedlings had a high density of meristematic tissue? Am I wasting my time chopping these shoots off of the seeds and incubating them in MS multiplication media?

Thanks again;
Erlend