Thanks for Your Seeds
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Thanks for Your Seeds
- From: H* E* P*
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 03:15:42 -0700
I want to thank a dozen people who are sending me seeds. Mostly these
are for testing inheritance of simple traits like seed color, and
complex traits like skin color which some believe is controlled by 9 or
more loci. Some have sent seeds for squash vs pumpkin and good tasting
flesh. Some are duplicates of the same mating to evaluate variance. etc,
etc.
I have started a web page for each experiment and the provider has the
URL. Others are welcome to look, but some pages are so incomplete they
make no sense--often because I am uncertain about what we should do.
Here is the URL for that index page:
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/pk700.htm
Some of the pages are 60K long but the last 50K is duplicate texts; hit
stop when any page gets beyond 15K if you wish.
2/3 of what I hope to do in 1999 was suggested by members of Pumpkins
List. Thanks. If you can't understand the above pages, soon to be 12,
they will improve each day--partly due to suggestions visitors send. In
some cases person seeding seeds are still deciding what to send me. The
pages are very preliminary.
If you have never had a genetics course, page pk010 describes monohybrid
and dihybrid crosses. This page is about 90% complete and should be
useful.
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/pk010.htm
A huge problem facing every breeder is the lack of resources to plant
all the seeds he has. (R) to nth power = 1/x has been my guide since
1959. A table giving values is at
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/bm111.htm
I will add the above formula and shorten the examples soon as possible,
but the table is complete and ready to use. This is the formula that
Mather came up with about 1930 and I have written about this table
before. Now you have it, but like most tools it does not come close to
telling you what to do.
I will welcome any comments on anything. Sorry the pages are so
incomplete now pages 712 and 721 are not uploaded and won't be for a
week.
If your computer attempts "save as" on any page; hit cancell. It is a
fault of my ISP. No harm will be done; it will only download an error
message.
--
Harold Eddleman Ph.D. Microbiologist. i*@disknet.com
Location: Palmyra IN USA; 36 kilometers west of Louisville, Kentucky
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/pk.htm
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