SAGE Project for '04

Chuck's suggestion we include shelf X shelf and Walter's suggestion we use and count reciprocal crosses are both very good suggestions and have been considered at length right from the beginning of the project.
 
There is, however, a well-known principle abbreviated as "KISS."  Quite succinctly, it says, "Keep it simple."
 
The information that can be gained from shelf x shelf crosses will also be gained from the cross-types #3 and #4, just with different numbers.  We already know that SA traits can and do emerge from non SA parents--as we see in the Austin, Tom Craig and other SA registrations and the history reported in TWOI.  There have also been recent registrations, including one by Vincent Christopherson of EVER SO SOFTLY, a horned variety from SPIRIT WORLD X CHIFFON RUFFLES, that do not come from the Austin UNICORN and sibling sources.
 
The Punnett Square, if it can be used at all to analyze the numbers we generate, will show the segregation of SA types in cross types 3 and 4 that may result from dosage levels, as it would also in a type cross between two shelved clones, but with quite a bit higher counts of SA types total from the crosses in the way designed.
 
The issue of maternal dominance is actually a separate issue from the SA traits one and complicates the SAGE design.  It is not that the issue is unimportant--it is most certainly important.  It just complicates what we are setting out to do, which has enough complications already.
 
The design is kept as simple and as flexible as possible to allow for limitations all of us face.  If each of us had about four acres to work in it would be different.  Most of us are back-yard hybridizers with very limited space.
 
Regretably, for '04, the four cross types listed are enough and already push the limit on what most of us are able to do.
 
Neil Mogensen, Coordinator for SAGE

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