RE: Pumpkin genetics
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: Pumpkin genetics
- From: Z* B* L*
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:08:17 -0500 (EST)
The female flowers are have the same genetics as the male flowers. You are
absolutely correct. However, you are seeing similar pumpkins because it
is only the female flowers that will dictate the shape and size of the
fruit. The pollinating male has nothing to do with it. however, the seed
from those pumpkins will contain the influence of the male. But since the
male was from the same plant as the female, then no new genetics have been
introduced. You are inbreeding the plant and will have identical genetic
makeup for all the seed except for the recombination that has occured among
the chromosomes during meiosis.
Zach Lippman
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