permanent clones??
Rodger Whitlock (Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:02:15 PDT)
On 5 Jul 04 at 11:04, zonneveld wrote:
Kevin wrote:
And then there are things/clones that exists
through time w/o change.
I am sure every clone will in time accumulate rare mutations
Actually if a single clone is multiplied in two different locations
by two different people they will in time differ It may be
sometime before a visible mutation has happened
In "Plant Breeding" by Liberty Hyde Bailey, the renowned American
horticulturist, the point is made that even within clones there is
considerable variation. Bailey asserts that in an apple orchard of
only one cultivar, the individual trees will show significant
variation, and that even the twigs on one tree vary.
Unless I mis-read or mis-remember the text, he even asserts that such
intra-clonal variation is as great as that in a batch of seedlings.
I must admit that I think Bailey overstated the degree of variation
in clones, but on the other hand he was not an idiot and knew a lot
more than I do.
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
"To co-work is human,
to cow-ork, bovine."