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  Re: Caladiums w/ virus?
From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.07.13 at 23:29:45(5086)
Dear Denis,

See my other postings from this AM with my opinions on this virus thing.

One other point---since most or all of the commercial Caladium vars. in
cultivation are produced from tubers that were created YEARS ago by crossing
different species and varieties, if we were to produce seed from these
present day ones the chances of obtaining anything worthwhile are slim to
none, most of them just have too many parents!!
I thought that a strain of Aroid could be 'cleansed' of this virus by
'doing' it in tissue culture, which eliminated the virus? Read it
somewhere.

Cheers,

Julius

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