To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The Newest Apple: Red to the Core
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:32:49 -0400
On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:48 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
> (I'm not understanding what grafting has to do with breeding a new
> cultivar.... ~mIEKAL)
I understand that breeding work can be done much faster if you graft a part
of a seedling onto a mature bearing tree - it tricks the seedling branch into
thinking it is mature enough to fruit without waiting 7-25 years for the tree
to actually mature.
That'd be my guess as to what grafting has to do with breeding.