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When she was younger, my mother owned a house with an apple tree that produced six varieties. I understand this can also be done with citrus and grapes, as wel
by jaggederest 7y ago
When she was younger, my mother owned a house with an apple tree that produced six varieties.
I understand this can also be done with citrus and grapes, as well. Pretty fascinating that their immune systems don't cross react, I think I remember that plants mostly use innate rather than active immunity.
- FreeFull 7y agoIt can also be done with plants in the nightshade family. So, for example, you can transplant the branches from a tomato plant onto a potato plant.
- dehrmann 7y agoOr tomato to tobacco.
- pvaldes 7y agoTomato mosaic virus would approve this
- cpete 7y agoYou just jogged my memory about a "tomato transplant mystery" in Berton Roueche's Medical Detectives. Link to a summary of the original 1965 New Yorker essay: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1965/05/15/something-a-little-unusual https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1965/05/15/something-a-li...
- pvaldes 7y agoSix is fine, fourty is excessive