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[Philip Stewart <philstewart24@yahoo.com>]

Peaches absolutely do mutate, just like everything
else.  It's pretty uncommon in general, but it happens
enough to be a fairly important source of variation,
as it is in apples and other clonally propagated
crops.

Nice page, by the way...thanks for passing it along.

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> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:56:38 -0700
> From: "Rodney" <reveland@collinscom.net>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Virginia Website about peaches.
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http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/treefruit/422-762/422-762.html
> 
> I didn't know about peaches being able to mutate as
> mentioned in this 
> article. Plus good information about parentage of
> peaches such as Contender 
> which was released by the North Carolina Experiment
> station in 1987. Now it 
> is being sold as a peach for Northern Gardeners. 
> 

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