Re: genetic diversity

From: dave evans (T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU)
Date: Thu Jan 02 1997 - 14:45:00 PST


Date:    Thu, 02 Jan 97 17:45 EST
From: dave evans                           <T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg19$foo@default>
Subject: Re: genetic diversity


> From: James Tovee <106361.2125@COMPUSERVE.COM>
>
> Surely the plants that propagated vegatively should have very
> little or no genetic diversity. It is only the plants grown from seed that
> will diversify. I am mainly interested in Saracenia. Many of these are have
> the area where they originated from appended to there name. These can only
> be propagated vegatively to truly retain their name.

Hi James,

   If you self-pollinate the flowers, you can still use the orginal
location data. The only genes in that seed will be from the original
site. You can also collect seed from a site and name it as such...
Sarracenia are not self-pollinating but they are self-fertile so
you can produce seed with good location data by helping out with
the pollination.

Dave Evans



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