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.
Bamboo cloning?
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Like Kyuzo (pictured above) in "The Seven Samurai," I've "...Killed (more than) two..." bamboos.
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.
Cady G.
"Killed two..." -- Seiji Miyaguchi/Kyuzo
"Killed two..." -- Seiji Miyaguchi/Kyuzo
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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.
Set me straight here.
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.
Set me straight here.
AJ Williams
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Cedar Mill Bamboo
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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?
AJ Williams
Cedar Mill Bamboo
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