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Most fruiting trees are cloned by grafting with rootstock. As the article says, sexual reproduction produces variance, and for many fruits we barely have them t
by jdmichal 8y ago
Most fruiting trees are cloned by grafting with rootstock. As the article says, sexual reproduction produces variance, and for many fruits we barely have them tamed. Sexually produced apples tend to be crab apples. Planting your Haas avocado seed will probably give you edible fruit, but nothing like a Haas.
- senorjazz 8y ago> Planting your Haas avocado seed will probably give you edible fruit, but nothing like a Haas. Might give you a handful of edible fruits, but nothing like the bounty you would get from a grafted tree producing 100s and 100s of fruits as well
- quixoticelixer- 8y agoGrafting and cuttings are a form of sexual reproduction.
- jdmichal 8y agoCuttings and grafting are both clonal reproduction. They are by definition asexual, because there is no recombinant chromosomes. Grafting to rootstock creates a genetic chimera. It does not mix chromosomes at all.