Re: CP digest 216

Andreas Wistuba (a.wistuba@carnivor.rhein-neckar.de)
10 Jan 1995 00:29:00 +0200

> albeit I doubt the potential of tissue culture
> to preserve a species rather than to preserve
> one particular gene-set, I believe this would
> at least enforce competion. 'The right to
> choose'.

A _randomly_ chosen in vitro population of totally around 50 seedgrown
clones of one local population of a species is better than nothing!
And might soon reach the number of plants which are left in the wild if
habitat destruction is not stopped.

Andreas

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