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Bamboo cloning?

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Is there a patent on cloning bamboo or can anyone [assuming they have the know-how,equipment,etc.] try and do it?

Any info would be appreciated.
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King, I believe that specific cloning methods can be patented providing they aren't already common knowledge and in long practice - such as rhizome division. Bamboo Select, for example, has a patent on whatever method it came up with to successfully clone bamboo with tissue culture.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't we taking a piece of a plant (division, rhizome, tissue etc..) and making a "new" plant from the original. Isn't that cloning? We're taking cells (pieces of the plant) and making new plants from them. Isn't that why all the plants of a bamboo specie flower at roughly the same time all over the world? In other words all have come from the same "mother" plant at one time and have been cloned a million times over? Isn't next generation seed the true biodiversity in the equation.

I believe micropropagation a.k.a. tissue culture is just another form of cloning. The individual techniques have probably been patented would be my guess.

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I'm assuming booking meant micropropagation. Dividing bamboo would be considered cloning. There are many ways to clone a plant, now a human on the other hand, is a little harder.

Adam wrote:Set me straight here.
Your description sounds accurate.


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Thank god they haven't started cloning humans. Can you imagine 2 Lances? :lol: :lol: :lol: Just kidding of course. Your posts would topple into the 1000's. :wink:
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Thank God you can't just cut off your finger and it'll start growing a whole new body. Everything is there to do it. Bamboo is an amazing plant don't you think? :D
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booking, jr 'I have a dream' wrote:Can you imagine 2 Lances? Just kidding of course. Your posts would topple into the 1000's
Its going to be like there are two lances for the the next week. Cabin fever + arctic + snow = more http://bambooweb.info



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