YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with viral cloning technique (dexerto.com)

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I'm interested in knowing which plants can't be cultivated using this method.

For instance eyebright, while common, resists cultivation as it's a hemiparasite and requires a host plant to grow.

How did nobody try this until now?

Ok hear me out. It's not particularly obvious to me why plants being easy to replicate suddenly destroyed the rare plant market. Surely they can't be easier to replicate than software. That hasn't seemed to put much of a dent in the software market.

The market literally depended on a monopoly of knowledge.

I highly doubt that rare plant collectors didn't know about plant tissue cultures