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Yes, in fact most roses and fruit trees are grafted onto different root stock. Most citrus is on sour orange stock. https://citrusrootstocks.org/rootstock-culti
by TradingPlaces 3y ago
Yes, in fact most roses and fruit trees are grafted onto different root stock. Most citrus is on sour orange stock. https://citrusrootstocks.org/rootstock-cultivars/ https://citrusrootstocks.org/rootstock-cultivars/ In the case of roses, this is the hideous Dr Huey variety, which will often try and take over the grafted rose https://www.rosenotes.com/2012/03/dr-huey-you-sucker-you.html https://www.rosenotes.com/2012/03/dr-huey-you-sucker-you.htm...
- goldenkey 3y agoWhy is the Dr Huey hideous, other than it being misused by humans in odd grafting procedures?
- TradingPlaces 3y agoJust a personal opinion, and one shared by many. The cultivar was bred by a dentist named Huey not for looks or scent like most roses, but for the rootstock. It tends to grow long unorganized canes very prone to disease, and the flowers are small with few petals. We have 32 rose bushes, and every spring I have to watch out for Dr Huey taking over.
- goldenkey 3y agoThank you, that makes sense. Are there animal/eukaryotic versions of the Dr Huey (GMO invaders?)
- TradingPlaces 3y agoI don’t understand the question
- goldenkey 3y agoIs there a bacteria/animal/fungi equivalent of rootstock that selective breeding has used? I know we study some long lived germlines of E. coli for example. And how about mushroom farms?
- TradingPlaces 3y agoI see. One of the two common GMO types is BT, which is a bacteria that produces a protein which is an insecticide. It is widely used in organic farming, especially for caterpillar control. I use it on my edible plants in late summer when we get a lot of caterpillars. In GMO varieties, the BT gene that produces the protein is grafted on to a popular cultivar so they produce their own insecticide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis