university calls for D. seeds...

Dr. Ch. Wawrosch/Prof.Dr. B. Kopp (A8471DAB@helios.edvz.univie.ac.at)
Fri, 12 Feb 93 13:11:52 MEZ

Hi,
at the time I subscribed some months ago I mentioned that we started a
project on the pharmaceutically active substances in Drosera species.
Our aim is to compare as much different species as possible and to find
out whether they have similiar pharmaceutical properties.
The way we chose and which seems to work is to start sterile in vitro-
cultures, build up 4-5 clones of each species, multiply them, and
acclimatize them to greenhouse conditions where they grow up. Finally we then
take samples for chemical analysis.

Last week we finished another project, so now we have enough place in
the sterile growth chambers to really start the Drosera thing.

So here comes my request: we would greatly appreciate if anyone of you
who hase spare seed material (perhaps one little plant, too?????) could
mail it to us-the more different D. species, the better representative
our work will be! Unfortunately we can't offer you anything but seeds
of D. rotundifolia & D. hilaris, perhaps also plants of D. capensis
'Narrow Leaf' and D. capensis 'Mary Goes Round' as well as plants of the
above mentio- ned 2 species. In vitro we also have D. binata and very
few plantlets of D. pygmea, but these two need to be further multiplied
before we undergo the risk of acclimatizing them.

Please let me know if you could make a present to science...but please don't
answer before Tue. 16th as the main machine of our node (AWIUNI11) is to
be turned off on Monday 15. As I start into a week of holidays I won't be
able to go through the e-mails before Monday 22th.

Thanxs in advance, greetings from Austria

Chris

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