I’m sorry and don’t want stir things up but this is a pet peeve of mine. “Genetic drift” is a population dynamics term and has nothing to do with degradation that may occur with an individual plant being cloned over and over again. I wish new terminology would be coined to explain what, if any, happens when a certain individual looses things by repeated cloning.
It may be variety related or related to the individual itself but there are mixed opinions of this happening. Some say they have been cloning the same plant for years and years with no loss and others have said that after repeated cloning things seem to degrade. I would venture to guess any loss is due to environmental factors, stress, pathogens, etc, etc.
It may be variety related or related to the individual itself but there are mixed opinions of this happening. Some say they have been cloning the same plant for years and years with no loss and others have said that after repeated cloning things seem to degrade. I would venture to guess any loss is due to environmental factors, stress, pathogens, etc, etc.