The clone is one of the basic categories of cultivar (4) with extremely important applications in horticulture. “Cloning” can be defined as the vegetative regeneration of a single genotype as represented by a single plant, single growing point, single meristem, or single explant. More recently this term has been expanded to cover regeneration of a fragment of a chromosome or gene. Cloning is a powerful procedure both as a plant selection tool for breeding and as a plant propagation tool for reproduction. This paper focuses attention on the opportunities and problems in propagation as it relates to horticulture.
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Dale E. Kester (1983) studied this question.