1%?
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- Subject: 1%?
- From: r*
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:17:53 -0800
Bob, If you are crossing two pumpkins that display every phenotype as
being different from each other. Leaf shape and size, stem color, pumpkin
shape and color, flower shape and color, etc-----. The only character they
have in common is large fruit. We want seeds that are going to give us
larger fruit. I envision all of these crosses laid out on a bell curve.
Most of them will fall in the middle, including the ones that gave you your
pumpkin size before. The large number of seeds just can"t have what we are
looking for. I figure only 1% of the cross will have it. If you are
crossing similar plants I expect that number would go up some. I thought I
read pumpkins were triploid? If they are that would help account for some
of their genetic instability. Roger
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