Re: Selfing
on 2/6/03 5:41 AM, Andrew Papez at apapez@cogeco.ca wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> The way they do it in corn is to take all the seeds from a cob and plant it,
> then select the best cob(color, taste etc) from all those plants and then
> plant all the seeds from that cob and repeat the whole process. This takes
> years and we are only planting one or two seeds from each pumpkin. To
> isolate the desirable traits in a pumpkin you would have to plant all the
> seeds out of a particular pumpkin (cross) you are interested in and take the
> most desirable(color, size weight etc) and plant all the seeds from that one
> and repeat the whole process again. Maybe in ten years you would have
> isolated the desirable traits. We are not currently doing that and is
> impossible to isolate the genes from one or two seeds. Still a crap shoot
> the way I see it.
>
> drew
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The best thing about the list is the different observations. Cliff had
some of the same observations as I did............I tried some of those
type of hybrid vigor crosses and missed does that mean they don't exist
HARDLY....
Drew, corn is not the best representation as it is severely affected by
selfings. But your point is well taken..........and as frustrating as it is
I think your RIGHT it is a bit of a crap shoot........well mostly a crap
shoot......... As we don't really know why were getting the results were
getting......and good results are popping up in un-focused areas....so yes
its a crap shoot but frustrated be..........MB
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