Re: LA\spec-x Andrew Wheeler


From: Gerry Snyder <gcsnyd@loop.com>

Shanna DeSotle wrote:
> 
> From: Shanna DeSotle <foxbrook@javanet.com>
> 
> I think that the 'wider' the cross, the more problems that will arise. (The
> more dissimilar the parents, the worse the child.)

This is certainly true in some areas, but in others there is the concept of
"hybrid vigor" when the parents are "unrelated" but "compatible."

Maybe the seeming inconsistency just means that "wide" may be okay, but
"dissimilar" is riskier.

Comments?

Gerry, tired after a week of recovering from spacecraft anomalies
-- 
g*@loop.com    AIS Region 15
Warm, winterless Los Angeles
President of San Fernando Valley Iris Society
My work?  Helping generate data for http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo

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