I believe that many varieties of roses are grafted onto rootstocks, so that
the nice flowers are uniform and the rootstocks are selected for a
particular microclimate (as is done for wine grapes and apples). In this
case scions might be from the same clone, but the stocks would probably not
be.
>A trip to your local garden center will provide you with more clones
>than you can shake a stick at. Named varieties of roses, iris,
>daylilies, cannas, etc.--anything where being exactly like Mom is
>necessary to maintain the name and the profit--will be vegetatively
>propagated. That is a form of cloning. Variation will arise from
>sports or mutations (like seedless grapefruit being borne on a seeded
>grapefruit tree). You will also get variation due to habitat,
>nutrition, etc. You might do a nice display in a small space with
>cacti, African violets, bromeliads, orchids, or other plants usually
>propagated by division.
>>M. Reed
>>martin weiss wrote:
>>>> I am thginking of developing an exhibit in a sciecne museum to
>> illustrate how the environment effects phenotype despite a constant
>> genome. I'd like to exhibit a number of cloned plants under the same
>> environmental conditions and illustrate how plants with the sdame genome
>> will have different physical characteristics.
>>>> Must I start with cells or are their plants that are clones that I can
>> take parts of and still grow the clone? Any and all help apreciated.
>> Respond top list and/or mweiss at nyhallsci.org>>>> Martin Weiss, PhD
>> Director of Sciemce
>> New York Hall of Science
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