Everything about Offsets totally explained
» See "offset" for other uses of the term.
Offsets are
layers of plants in the
plant nursery business. They are
clones of the mother plants ("
hens and chicks"), meaning that they've the same
genetic code.
Offsets form when
meristem regions of plants, such as
axillary buds or
homologous structures enlarge, and differentiate into a new plant with self-sustaining structures.
Tulips and
lilies are examples which display offset characteristics.
When propagating plants to increase a stock of a
cultivar, thus seeking identical copies of parent plant, various cloning techniques (
asexual reproduction) are used. Offsets is a natural means by which plants may be cloned.
In contrast, when propagating plants to create new cultivars,
sexual reproduction through pollination is used to create
seeds. The
recombination of genes gives rise to offspring plant with similar but distinct offspring genome.
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