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Article: Link to the past: carrying on the methods, and results, of vegetative propagation. (Tree Maintenance).
- Article from:
- Arbor Age
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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BOTH PLATO AND ARISTOTLE DISCUSSED THE VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION OF grapes, olives, mulberry, quince, pomegranates and figs as a means duplicating plants with superior fruiting habits and fruit quality. Because these are all open pollinated plants, it would be impossible to reproduce them exactly from seed. Thus the only means of reproducing these selected plants would be by vegetative or asexual propagation (cloning). Vegetative propagation assures that all offspring are genetically identical clones of the mother plant.
Cloning has been used extensively by the horticulture industries. Nearly all fruit crops, some vegetable and a high percentage of ornamental and ...