Re: cp's from Carolina Biological

Andreas Wistuba (A.Wistuba@DKFZ-Heidelberg.DE)
Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:03:10 GMT+1

> Carolina Biological Supply has come up several times recently with regards
> to book sales, and I've got a question about the cp's they sell. Does
> anyone know whether their plants are greenhouse grown, tissue culture, or
> (horrors!) collected? I've dealt with them as a source of laboratory and
> teaching supplies for many years and I know them to be a reputable company,
> but their catalog does not specifically state the source of their plants.
> After the comments posted here about the collecting of VFT for K-mart and
> such, I got to wondering.

I'm not sure 100% but I remember a very old CPN-article dealing with
tissue culture of various Ping's and VFT's. If I remember right
Carolina Biological Supplies either were the grower or at least
involved.

Bye,

Andreas


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