A very good point. Only here I have never seen a bamboo having seeds, not in the local Otate or in any plantings of other varieties
in town.
Terry
--- In bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com, "E. M. Muralidharan"
<emmurali@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Tissue culture of bamboo from explants taken from adult clumps will
be much
> more difficult than that of seeds or seedlings. You need to
overcome the
> hurdles of high rates of contamination and difficulty in rooting.
> Yet several tropical clumping species are amenable to tissue
culture.
>
> Muralidharan, India
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Peter Johnson
> <peterj-hrt@...>wrote:
>
> > Hi Luiz, I have been learning and practicing tissue culture
with bamboo
> > here in Melbourne Australia with thoughts of producing bamboo for
forest
> > projects. I am having some good success at early stages starting
with seed
> > and then going on to multiplication stage and am yet to change
media for
> > root development and then moving plants to hot house and then
outside world.
> > I am using tropical clumping bamboo that is available from seed
as practice
> > and am then wanting to experiment with taking material from
> > ex- plant material when it is in active growth later in our
Summer (
> > February- March). I have found it pretty easy to get plants going
from seed
> > when the seed is Viable and cleanable but have not had much of a
go with
> > ex-plants ( the few I tried were not vigorously growing and just
sat there
> > doing nothing, others I didn't succeed with getting them clean
and produced
> > fabulous moulds etc) I'd be interested to hear how you go.
> > All the best warm regards Peter.
> >
> > >>> "Luiz A. Gallo" <luagallo@... <luagallo%40esalq.usp.br>>
> > 12/09/2008 >>>
> >
> > I every one. Im starting a new project for bamboo
micropropagations for
> > reflorestation of degradated areas. Some one who wants to help me
with
> > protocols will be welcome and very good to me and my lab.
> > Here in Brazil we start to have a serius thouths about bamboos
and its use
> > as fuel, constructions and biomass accumulation. thanks
> >
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