Narcissus 'Quince'

J.E. Shields jshields104@insightbb.com
Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:42:02 PDT
Another way of cleaning up virus infected bulbs is by heat treatment.  It 
undoubtedly varies by bulb species and pest species, but 55 C for an hour 
is perhaps close to what you can do.  Rather than discard valuable but 
virus infected bulbs, try heat treating them first.

I don't know, does heat also kill mycoplasma?

Jim Shields


At 01:11 PM 4/14/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>On 13 Apr 04 at 20:18, Arnold Trachtenberg wrote:
>
> > Rodger:
> >
> > Nancy Wilson has Quince.
> >
> > http://www.asis.com/~nwilson/index.html
>
>But is it virus- and nematode-free? I suspect that 'Quince' is one of
>those cultivars where all the commercial stock is diseased;
>'Tete-a-Tete' is another such. I'm hoping that someone out there
>has clean stock of 'Quince' or has run some through meristem culture
>to clean it up.
>
>--
>Rodger Whitlock
>Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate

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