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Tree Of 40 Trees

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John Ramdath
The Tree of 40 Fruits
In 2008 Van Aken acquired the New York Agricultural Experiment Station orchard. Aken then began to graft buds from the over 250 heritage varieties grown there on to stock trees. This stock tree then tree accumulated branches from forty different "donor" trees, each with a different fruit, including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.
This is possible because of proper grafting techniques and the trees biology. Grafting a tree is a farming technique in which a piece of the donor tree’s stem, with buds, is inserted into the stock of a tree. This is done because seeds from fruit trees cannot be reproduced "true" to the original cultivar from seed. In other words, a granny smith …show more content…

In the callus differentiation gives rise to the two major types of plant vascular tissue xylem and phloem. Xylem is responsible for keeping the plant hydrated and can normally be fond towards the center of the plant. All Xylem cells are dead, elongated and hollow. The two types of Xylem cells are tracheids and vessel elements. Tracheids are found in most gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes. Tracheids cells are long, thin, and are connected together by tapered ends. The tapered ends run alongside each other and have pits. These pits are holes in the cell wall that allow for water to travel from cell to cell. The other type of Xylem is vessel elements which form the xylem of almost all angiosperms. Vessel elements are shorter and wider than tracheids. Also the vessel elements are connected end to end and the ends contain what are known as perforation plates. Perforation plates have a number of holes in their cell walls which allows for water to travel freely between cells. Phloem is composed of living cells and transports important sugars, organic compounds, nutrients and macromolecules. The nutritious sap within the phloem travels by diffusion between cells. Phloem is made from cells called sieve-tube members and companion cells which are normally located on the outer layers of the plant. Sieve-tube members are cells that create chains of cells running the length of the plant.
Sieve-tube member’s cells are missing some vital organelles such

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