Tissue Culture for Native Plants
What are the options when seeds are scarce, cuttings won’t root, or disease risk makes propagation impossible? Biodiversity-focused plant tissue culture offers a critical solution for native plant propagation and restoration projects.
This session will break down tissue culture's potential in clear, grower-focused terms, explore a range of of conventional and unique project examples, and address the elephant in the native plant room: can cloned plants really yield greater biodiversity than seed alone? With the right approach, answer in some cases is YES!
Della Fetzer
Della Fetzer is the Founder of Rebel Cultures, a Michigan-based tissue culture research lab for specialty and conservation crops. Della's team partners with growers, universities, conservation nonprofits, and government programs across horticulture, agriculture, and forestry to develop tissue culture propagation methods, educate, and build local plant production systems across Michigan and beyond.