parasitic plants - (Dec/18/2007 )

hi guys

did anyone here try to culture a parasitic plant (especially holoparasites which have no chlorophyl) in vitro...please i need some protocols/methods ..
i tried to look for some in google, but i found nothing ..

and also with desert plants !!

hey strawberry,

haven't seen you around in a while! i found this paper by chance and thought of you. hope it's useful. what parasitic plant are you working with?


Tissue culture of parasitic flowering plants: Methods and applications in agriculture and forestry
In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant
Volume 35, Number 5 / September, 1999

http://www.springerlink.com/content/4175u1...624b7a&pi=6

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