Heat treatment for mosaic virus
Nathan Lange (Thu, 09 May 2013 16:29:16 PDT)
Obviously, twin scaling of a virused bulb will produce virused bulbs.
My point was that twin scaling of a large virused bulbs will produce
numerous small virused bulbs. As people pointed out, small bulbs may
be more easily heat treated than large bulbs. Also, having numerous
small virused bulbs instead of one large virused bulb allows you the
opportunity to try more than one temperature or heating
duration. This may give you a better chance of saving some large
infected bulb.
Nathan
At 04:11 PM 5/9/2013, you wrote:
Wow, this is shrapnel! First and foremost, twin scaling of a virused
bulb will produce virused bulbils. Meristem culture is a quite
different thing and will clean virused stock, but involves lab
conditions. Two bulbs that were cleaned this wy: Narcissus 'Tete a
Tete' and Hippeastrum papilio.
You people must have heard years ago of a method (reported as very
successful) for treatment of HIV patients: basically it consisted in
heating their blood in a machine (to describe it crudely) letting
it cool down and recircling it into the body. The heat killed the
virus giving good life quality. Mysteriously, no report of it (for
good or bad) for many years now.
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