Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:34:53 -0500 (EST) From: Perry Malouf <pmalouf@access.digex.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3422$foo@default> Subject: Re: CP Breeding for Faster Growth.
Matt Miller wrote:
> ..."Fast Plants" ... are simply a mustard plant that was
> bread at the University of Wisconsin to increase its growth speed...
> ....average life cycle of 6 months ... and
> reduced it down to a total life cycle of 35 days.
> ...Would it be possible to to this with
> CP's...
I think this is an interesting idea, but there are vast
differences between the mustard plant you described and
many cp.
A 6 month life cycle (as you defined it) means that you
can run breeding experiments over a relatively short
time of a few years.
> Carnivorous plants by nature grow slowly due to their lack
> of soil nutrients. Most have around a 5 year life cycle.
Some Nepenthes grow so slowly that it would take much longer
than 5 years to go from seedling to seed-producer.
I think it would be great to have a N. villosa that could go
from seedling to maturity in a couple of years. For this
species it would take a human lifetime to run the breeding
experiment.
Maybe it would be more reasonable to start with other
cp like Dionaea or Sarracenia. But the growth rate of
these plants is tolerable already, in my opinion.
Regards,
Perry Malouf
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