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Cloned radiata pine shoots

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Cloned radiata pine shoots

A technician trims tissue culture in the Tasman Forestry Tissue Culture Laboratory at Te Teko in 1985. Researchers have investigated various ways of mass-producing trees without seed, including taking cuttings and using tissue-culture techniques.

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Margaret Richardson, Forestry research – Growing better trees, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17056/cloned-radiata-pine-shoots (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Margaret Richardson, published 1 March 2009.