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Just a personal opinion, and one shared by many. The cultivar was bred by a dentist named Huey not for looks or scent like most roses, but for the rootstock. It tends to grow long unorganized canes very prone to disease, and the flowers are small with few petals. We have 32 rose bushes, and every spring I have to watch out for Dr Huey taking over.

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Thank you, that makes sense. Are there animal/eukaryotic versions of the Dr Huey (GMO invaders?)

I don’t understand the question

Is there a bacteria/animal/fungi equivalent of rootstock that selective breeding has used?

I know we study some long lived germlines of E. coli for example. And how about mushroom farms?

I see. One of the two common GMO types is BT, which is a bacteria that produces a protein which is an insecticide. It is widely used in organic farming, especially for caterpillar control. I use it on my edible plants in late summer when we get a lot of caterpillars. In GMO varieties, the BT gene that produces the protein is grafted on to a popular cultivar so they produce their own insecticide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis

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