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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: Can a fruit tree, like plum or peach, be grafted to the roots of a dogwood?
« on: 17/08/2017 16:57:18 »
With regards to the OP:
I have no idea whether such a graft wold be viable. But even if both organisms survive the grafting process, one also has to consider potential effects on the fruit.
I am familiar with one very stark example: The nightshade family is enormous, and includes several varieties of highly toxic plants, like deadly nightshade, henbane, angel's trumpet, etc. as well as several varieties of tasty plants like tomatoes, eggplants, hot peppers etc. It turns out the tomatoes can be grafted onto henbane (aka datura or jimson weed) rootstock. The chimaera produces fruit that look just like tomatoes, but contain potentially fatal concentrations of tropane alkaloids (which are synthesized in the roots, and then distributed throughout the plant).
I don't think that anything remotely like this would happen with "dogwood peaches" but something to bear in mind...
I have no idea whether such a graft wold be viable. But even if both organisms survive the grafting process, one also has to consider potential effects on the fruit.
I am familiar with one very stark example: The nightshade family is enormous, and includes several varieties of highly toxic plants, like deadly nightshade, henbane, angel's trumpet, etc. as well as several varieties of tasty plants like tomatoes, eggplants, hot peppers etc. It turns out the tomatoes can be grafted onto henbane (aka datura or jimson weed) rootstock. The chimaera produces fruit that look just like tomatoes, but contain potentially fatal concentrations of tropane alkaloids (which are synthesized in the roots, and then distributed throughout the plant).
I don't think that anything remotely like this would happen with "dogwood peaches" but something to bear in mind...
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