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Techniques of cloning forest trees and, for that matter, of clonal forestry are not new. Cloned trees have been used for a very long time. Kleinschmit et al. (Chap. 2, Vol. 2) provide histories of the use of clones for various forestry purposes, and found evidence for serial grafting of Ficus clones for about 3000 years and for air-layering of fruit trees in a 76 A.D. writing. A 12th-century Islamic treatise by ibn-al-Awwam of Seville classified plants as those that grow from cuttings and those that grow from seeds, including in this list more than 50 trees (Hitti 1970). However, with recent advances in genetics and in breeding theory and technique (Namkoong and Kang 1990), with the availability of pedigreed families and clones, with advances in both the theory and practice of vegetative propagation (see Clonal Forestry, Vol. 1, Ahuja and Libby 1993), and with modern methods of information storage and retrieval, clonal forestry is evolving as a discipline, particularly during the past decade.
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Libby, W.J., Ahuja, M.R. (1993). Clonal Forestry. In: Ahuja, MR., Libby, W.J. (eds) Clonal Forestry II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84813-1_1
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