From: Barbara Lamar (blamar@satx.rr.com)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 13:11:49 MST
Robert Bradbury wrote:
> In a
> multicellular organism it becomes a very interesting question
> as to when the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few
> or the one.
[...]
> Ah, but we know how difficult it is to produce clones. What is the
> success rate: 1 in 50? 1 in 100?
The success rate is quite different with multicellular plants. For example,
one of the most robust plants in my country garden is a Fortune's Double
Yellow rose <http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/teas/fortunes.html >. Each of the
thousands of Fortune's Double Yellow now in existence is a clone descended
from a plant taken from China to England in 1845, at which time it was
thought to be already quite an old variety.
Barbara Lamar
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