Re: Where do you replant?
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Where do you replant?
- From: t*@lanl.gov (Tom Tadfor Little)
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:55:36 -0600
John Jones wrote:
:Unless all irises poison their own beds (would seem to be a very
:anti-evolutionary
:tactic)
..not necessarily. Such a process would ensure that single clones do not come
to dominate the population. After a few years, the original clone would be
weakened
and its seedlings (growing in new ground) would be thriving. Hence the genetic
diversity of the species is maintained.
Food for thought.
Cheers, Tom.
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Tom Tadfor Little tlittle@lanl.gov -or- telp@Rt66.com
technical writer/editor Los Alamos National Laboratory
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