Re:China cloning on an 'industrial scale'
by sampo on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @04:47AM
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Each apple variety also comes from a single clone.
"Every McIntosh is a graft of the original tree that John McIntosh discovered on his Ontario farm in 1811, or a graft of a graft. Every Granny Smith stems from the chance seedling spotted by Maria Ann Smith in her Australian compost pile in the mid-1800s."
"Every McIntosh is a graft of the original tree that John McIntosh discovered on his Ontario farm in 1811, or a graft of a graft. Every Granny Smith stems from the chance seedling spotted by Maria Ann Smith in her Australian compost pile in the mid-1800s."
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/heritage-appl...