Cloning a carrot?

[Bio-Hazard]

F.C Steward found a way to clone a carrot.

This experiment was done back in 1958.

 

48 years pass, and yet there is no providable information on the Internet to make a clone of a carrot.

 

Anyone know a website that fully describes the process with visual information?

[MortenS]

See here:

 

http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/west/science/biotech/tissueculture.htm

for example.

 

The callus initiation medium recipe can be found here:

http://www.rowan.edu/biology/faculty/obrien/IB%20Carrot%20Cloning.pdf

 

This medium can be bought from biological supply stores.

[JoeRoccoCassara]

The ability to clone crops means you only have to grow one, and your rich.

[modest]

The ability to clone crops means you only have to grow one, and your rich.

 

Cloning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Many horticultural plant cultivars are clones, having been derived from a single individual, multiplied by some process other than sexual reproduction. As an example, some European cultivars of grapes represent clones that have been propagated for over two millennia. Other examples are potato and banana. Grafting can be regarded as cloning, since all the shoots and branches coming from the graft are genetically a clone of a single individual,

 

~modest

[freeztar]

The ability to clone crops means you only have to grow one, and your rich.

 

If that were the case, everyone would be doing it and everyone would be rich. ;)

 

Cloning crops is a great way to go for isolated systems, but if the clone is susceptible to a certain pathogen, then they all will be. This has had devastating effects in rice farming. Genetic variability is the only natural safeguard against total crop failure.

[mynah]

Last year I discovered a rose in my garden had a branch with flowers that had a much deeper and more attractive colour than those of the rest of the plant, so I cloned it. No fancy technology was needed - just a clipper, rooting powder, potting soil and regular watering.

[hilim]

the problem is that in europe its not allowed growing for eating GMO(gene modified organism) :evil: but if its just cloning so its quit simple in many plants but in others its might be hard - to regenerate u have to play with hormons -might be trickey, also for making tree cloned will not be efficient. :evil:

[Ganoderma]

isn't "clone" just a fancy word smart people use to say "cutting"?

 

this discussion makes me think: Bananas.

[mynah]

I have to admit my remark was tongue in cheek - but yes, a cutting is really just a low-tech clone. Cultivating plants from single cells is much more difficult, but worth it in some cases, as in somatic hybrids. Potatoes and tomatoes don't cross in nature, but their cells can be fused in the laboratory and grown to form a "pomato". (It proved to be poisonous and without tubers, indicating that, with hybridisation, the laws of Murphy are as likely to apply as those of Mendel.)

[Ganoderma]

lol, ya it will never work out as planned.....but were potatoes not considered kind of poisonous back in the olden days? south americans (???) bred them for many years to get them what they are today didnt they?

 

but i am curious, how is a hybrid a clone? each cell si a clone, but fused means 2 parents, no? :confused:

[mynah]

Potato plants are poisonous - it is just the tubers that are edible. The hybrid wasn't a clone, but it was turned into a viable plant using advanced technology that could be used in cloning. Going this far to clone a plant isn't usually necessary, however: When large scale production of genetically identical plants is required, slices of plant tissue are sometimes cultivated on a suitable growth medium.

[hilim]

also intresting that all the solenium- tomato. potato, red peper got special material called solenium or something similar. that is like small amount of poison for our body, also there is people will never touch that food cause that material is too bad for their health:eek_big: