Who thinks/thought that in vitro culture saves the rain forest?
> > species out there in the jungle (i.e. the
> > small areas left), but I disagree if you
> > claim these will be discovered and named
> > because somebody wants to create a new market
> > with tissue cultered plants.
> No, but it is welcomed opportunity to be able
> to sell them overpriced
> in high numbers in a
Where are these high numbers of plant buyers?
> short time. That was my argument and in this
> there is no difference to "Victorian plant
> hunters" albeit with re- spect to the damage
> caused to the environment.
Who damages the environment? Through our travels Joachim, Heiko and myself
never noticed that an ecosystem was dying because a fanatic Orchid or CP-
lover had collected a few cpsules of seeds or in the more scientific case
a few cuttings as herbarium specimens (type material). A non-commercial
collection of seeds (and I regard the collection of some seeds as a start
for in-vitro-propagation as non-commercial) can hardly do any damage to a
population.
> > There is a scientific interest in these with
> > or without the possibility of TC.
>
> Undoubtedly!
Well, Michael,
I fear that "we re making progress";-)
> > In my opinion it is better having these new
> > species in vitro and making them available to
> > the public than never knowing that these
> > species exist at all or being already
> > destroyed.
>
> Sure, as more or less 'artificial' artifacts
> disembodied from their environment with no
> realistic hope ever to be reestablished. So,
> what is the value, anyway ? What is a species
> without its ecosystem.
A "cultivated" population can not replace the wild population but isn t
human an "artificial artifact disembodied from their environment with no
realistic hope ever to be reestablished" as well?
All the best
Andreas
Andreas Wistuba
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