"Peter Jason" wrote in message ...

Tissue culture at home is challenging because unless you have
thousands of dollars to spend, you have to make do without a laminar
flow hood or build one yourself. You can substitute a pressure cooker
for an autoclave to sterilize media and glassware.

Could equipment be sterilized in a normal microwave oven?

You can't microwave metal instruments. You cannot get water above
boiling in a microwave. Everything I have ever seen or read on plant
tissue culture says you need a pressure cooker to sterilize water,
media, etc.

Here's more webpages on home tissue cultu

http://www.une.edu.au/~agronomy/AgSSrHortTCinfo.html

http://www.omnisterra.com/botany/cp/slides/tc/tc.htm

http://www.kitchenculturekit.com/Index.htm