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  • From: "Richard L. Wagner" <rewagner@centurytel.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Tree clones from different nurseries grow differently
  • Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:52:48 -0400

Miller isn't the only one making a similar claim. I believe St. Lawrence does also.
Raising in a colder climate is not going to change the basic genetics. That requires changing the genetic combinations (genotype) generation to generation combined with selection. The one thing growing in a cold climate does is to provide the stress that helps identify which clones are most vulnerable. In the absence of genetic mutations, naturally a very slow process, it can only weed out the weakest but not increase the strongest. Where the plant is grown is not going to make a difference though how it is grown and harvested may make a difference in first season survivability..






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