trying to breed Giant Pumpkins for something other than weight
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- Subject: trying to breed Giant Pumpkins for something other than weight
- From: J* <s*@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:30:54 +0000
- Comments: Authenticated sender is <sln8m@cc.usu.edu>
>
> How do you breed in powdery mildew resistance? Do you have a strain of
> normal sized pumpkins with the resistance to breed giants with? Do you
> know how inbred giant pumkins are? Is it possible to examine the DNA
> of some giant pumkins to see how similar they are? ( Not to sequence
> them, just to see how much variation there is )
>
> On a related note is anyone trying to breed Giant Pumpkins for
> something other than weight?
>
> Cheers,
> Enrique
>
I am going to cross the ag with the prizewinner this year and
hopefully get a prettier pumpkin without sacrificing too much size.
Has anybody tried this? Results?
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