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  • DUARTE NURSERY
  • Products
    • Almonds
    • Grapevines
    • Pistachios
    • Walnuts
    • Poinsettias
  • Ag Science & Tech
    • Containerized Growing
    • Clonal Rootstock
    • Duarte Research Lab
  • About
    • History
    • Company Directors
    • Community & Advocacy
    • Trees, Vines & Climate Change
    • Field Reps
      • John Arellano
      • Stefan Daniels
      • Hilary Graves
      • Joel Myers
      • Ed Needham
      • Steve Neill
      • Tia Russell
      • Steve Scheuber
      • Aaron Salsedo
  • Events
    • Tradeshows
    • Clonal Field Days
    • Bennett Field Day
    • Friends Day
  • Contact Us
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Clonal Rootstock

Frequently asked questions about clonal rootstocks:

What does “clonal” mean?

In short, cloning a plant is the process of creating several, identical plants from one mother plant. Duarte Nursery uses clonal technology to reproduce the best rootstocks. The Mother tree is one tree selected from many, it will display desirable traits such as: higher production, suitability to a specific soil type, resistance to nematodes and root pathogens, or the increasingly important characteristic of salt tolerance. For the farmer, this means that every cloned tree can grow and produce like the “best” tree.

Q:  How do clonal rootstocks deliver these advantages?

A:  Through more precise genetic selection. This is a big advantage for several reasons: 

  1. Clonal rootstocks are selected for specific traits rather than general characteristics.  
  2. Clonal selection allows us to access diverse parents for an optimum combination of traits.   
Q:  Why select a clonal rootstock

A:  Clonal rootstocks allow you to better select the genetics of your orchard. Clonal rootstocks are more productive, uniform, disease resistant, and adaptable. 

Q:  What is a clonal rootstock?

A:  A clonal rootstock is a vegetatively propagated or cloned rootstock as opposed to a germinated seedling rootstock.

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