Garden Chat: seedlings, clones and a bit of plant breeding

Garden Chat: seedlings, clones and a bit of plant breeding

Garlic cloves, lily and gladioli bulbs, Jerusalem artichoke tubers and strawberry stolons are all examples of plants reproduced as clones. Genetic diversity, cloning and sowing are words that all have one thing in common: they are the result of reproduction. Sexual reproduction results in seedlings that increase the genetic diversity of a particular species while …

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