Dell wrote > Here is a link to a "home tissue culture" site: > http://www.hometissueculture.org/ I've taken Carol's course. She is a good teacher. It is well worth the time and is relatively inexpensive. As with everything, careful practice leads to improvement. The basic skills of sterile culturing aren't that hard but to do it right without contaminating your setup requires careful attention. With practice this comes. I already had bacteriology lab skills from undergraduate research years ago. (This was before hoods were used for much other than mammalian cell and virus culture. We mouth pipetted pathogenic bacteria.) Bacteriology lab skills are of immense help for tissue culture practice. I might suggest anybody interested in learning to do tissue culture, embryo rescue, or similar techniques take a basic bacteriology course -- with lab -- at a local community college or other college. The skills are exactly the same and I suspect once you learn the skills you will be able to learn the plant applications on your own. Bacteriology courses are probably more readily available to people than are plant tissue culture courses. Leo Martin Phoenix Arizona USA