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[david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>]

Sounds like the definition of "bud sport." That is how I understand it - 
insofar I understand it at all.
 
Dave Liezen
 
> Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 15:57:14 -0500
> From: nave1@comcast.net
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Butternut/White Walnut - disease issues.
> 
> OK, so it is when there is a mutation on a branch, for instance, of a tree 
> where the fruit is 
> different from the rest of the tree, and then this branch is taken and 
> propagated by grafting 
> presumably. So it is a genetic mutation, but not due to sexual recombining 
> or hybridization?
> 
> Dan
> 
> On 5/1/2011 2:35 PM, Louis Pittman wrote:
> > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Dan Nave<nave1@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> What is a "budsport?"
> >>
> >> Dan,
> > A budsport is a genetic mutation which results in a different appearance.
> >
> > The heartnut, with its distinctive valentine heart-shaped nut, is a 
> > genetic
> > mutation of the Japanese walnut, Juglans ailantifolia. To my eye, heartnut
> > & Japanese walnut trees are essentially indistinguishable, but the nut of
> > the straight species looks very much like the typical butternut nut, if a
> > bit smaller.
> >
> > Budsports have been selected and propagated throughout history - for
> > instance, the various increasingly redder and more conical sports of the
> > original Hawkeye Delicious which have yielded the Red Delicious most folks
> > are accustomed to seeing (and avoiding due to its abhorrent taste) in the
> > grocery.
> > Big Red Gala, Scarlet Gala, Red Fuji, Perrine Giant Yellow Transparent
> > apples, red D'Anjou pears, the Converse Major pecan, etc., all are 
> > budsports
> > which were noticed by someone - the fruit was different(bigger, different
> > color, etc.) on that one branch, and it was selected for propagation.
> >
> > LLP
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