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Can’t find the paper right now, but China has a massive effort underway to tissue culture needle trees for large areas in the West. Single needle can basically
by brunooo 5y ago
Can’t find the paper right now, but China has a massive effort underway to tissue culture needle trees for large areas in the West.
Single needle can basically be raised to dozens of seedlings in 3 months, and thus the only way they found to reach the scale they were looking for.
- CameronNemo 5y agoIs there sex involved, or are they clones?
- mythrwy 5y agoSex sex sex, that's all they think about. (Clones if it's tissue culture)
- _ph_ 5y agoThis sounds like they are clones of the tree the needles were take from. But if the don't take a thousand needles from one tree but one needle from a thousand trees to star with, they would have a lot of generic variety. Going via needles would only mean "skipping" one generation of intermixing the genes, but the new trees would be as genetically varied as their origins.