Is it possible for a bee to cross pollenate part of an apple tree so you get 2 types of apples on one tree?

Question

Is it possible for a bee to cross pollenate part of an apple tree so you get 2 types of apples on one tree?

Answer 1

The characteristics of the apple fruit are controlled by it's parent. On an apple tree there will be seeds containing various different genetic crosses but that doesn't make the fruit look different. In most plants the mother plant controls the characteristics of her fruit, regardless of the DNA mixture in the seed.

Think of the apple fruit as the plant form of a placenta. When a human egg is fertilised the DNA from the sperm doesn't control the development of the placenta, that's wholly down to the mother. Pollen and plant ova play the same gender roles in the development of the fruit.

Answer 2

no, polen is specific for each type of apple

Answer 3

its possible

Answer 4

there are two ways to get 2 types of apple on 1 tree.you can buy apple trees which are a rootstock grafted with more than one variety,origonally done because some varieties are not self pollanating.the other way if the apple tree produces new growth with a different genetic make up ,often called "a sport".all a bee would is pollinate the fruit ,which would `carry`the genetic make up of the cross.

hope this helps.

Answer 5

yes but I don't know how

Answer 6

no because a specie of an apple remains thesame on a its tree

Answer 7

No.

Answer 8

NO! becasue jim said so

Answer 9

A lot of apple trees have been grafted. We had some ornamental crab apples trees that had another species of crab apples grafted on. It was suppose to keep the tree small enough to pick the apples at the top from the ground. Its been a long time but it was called some kind of dwarf apple tree.

Answer 10

you can graft a different apple branch onto another tree. its really cool to do and then the pollen thing will work. We had a granny smith branch on a mac tree. you can do this as many times as you want but dont do them all at once. pollen by itself will not produce a different species.

Answer 11

No.  Cross pollination will not effect the apples on the tree, only the seeds in that apple.  If you have a tree producing more than one type apple it has been grafted sometime in the past.  By grafting different varieties of apple on the same tree it is possible to produce several different kinds on apples on the same tree.

Answer 12

you can graft 2 or more types of apple on 1 tree.

This is how you get a single tree with 2 kinds of fruit