Explain why most farmers use stem cuttings to plant new fruit trees rather than plant seeds.

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2 answers:

denis-greek [22]3 years ago

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cause the stem cuttings will spread like bulbs and its quicker.

Dvinal [7]3 years ago

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The main reason that most farmers use stem cuttings rather than just planting a seed is that a tree's genetic variation will occur. The seeds of many fruit trees tend to vary differently from the parent, because seeds themselves are produced by sexual reproduction (i.e they receive genes from a male and female to form). As they are a cross from two sets of genes, many fruit trees are not “true to seed”. Their seeds will produce a generally different variety of tree from the parent. When using stem cuttings, it's almost like a cloning process.

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