Published 2006
New grapevines, in common with many other perennial crops, are produced by vegetative propagation, that is by using cuttings which are genetically identical. (This contrasts with agricultural field crops, which are multiplied by seeds that are different one from another—although sexual reproduction leading to the production of seedlings is the means by which new varieties are created.) In vegetative propagation, each bud from a so-called ‘mother vine’ essentially gives rise to a plant of the same clone (except for those very rare cases in which a bud mutation has taken place).
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