What if your enviro doesn't express correctly?....will you blame the genetics or the grower?...I argue that indoors the suppression of genotype expression reduces the pool size necessary to find the best 5% because you wont see the variation indoors
The environment the selection takes place in will alter the expression of the genes slightly, but it will not alter the genes themselves. Therefore the ratio stays the same, but selection can only be made for the environment the selection takes place in.
Tom and The Architect were both found wounded after a duel at dawn this morning. Both were high so their aim was terrible. Tom received a hand wound and shot the architect in the foot. The argument on who won is still raging at the hospital.......
part of the ART of selection is knowing how it makes you FEEL
tell me paco what percentage of breeds out there today got here because people used gas chrormography to determine if it was a keeper and worth breeding and how many used a gas chromagraphy to get to the best of the best
then compare their place in the market versus those who didnt use that technique
And anyone can do it...and everyone does...wow, lets get some marketing people in here to put a value on it
Well lets see there's about a million Rezdogs out there blowing up basements and making money. Then there's GW Pharm. So how much is Sativex worth mister marketer? Oh and where is Rez's place in the market these days? I guess he got tired of making thousands of dollars from idiots off of every seeded plant he could pollinate. Don't you worry tho GW will still be around next year
Neither a farmer in the past did pick up a book and they did manage by growing large quantities and especially observations in the field to breed the strains which did fit in their environment they were growing and give them the harvest they needed like the fiber for rope, clothing or potent resin for hashish.The info they learned in the field was passed from generation to generation.
To get the info from books is very handy but to do it practical is something else.Not everyone has the right skills to do the right observations in the field although they have the theory from books.
Keep on growing
As far as I have ever read, GW are using the classic breeding process, but having the dna of the offspring tested and analysed together with the chemical composition of the finished resins to identify what causes what. The breeding for the desired.
If you have a link to anything that they have published stating they are manipulating genes, I'd be grateful for the link.
Yeah I read that a few years ago, however manipulating those is achieved through classical breeding, not in the way gmo is manipulated. Its poorly worded to make it sound much cleverer than it is.
Let's say you have 5 individuals you really like, and want to breed them all. Self them first, and rank their progeny. Individual 1 has 1 of 30 that is similar to mom, plant 2 has 3, but plant 4 has 15 individuals in her S1 progeny that are similar to mom. Okay so then we can say that plant 4 is most homozygous of the group. Therefore, plant 4 will extremely likely be the best plant to breed with, be it repeating the self, using it as a recurrent parent in a backcross, crossing it out, no matter, the vast majority of the time plant 4 because it selfs well will have the highest breeding worth of all those plants we genotyped via selfing.
eg if you take the time to find via selfing your most homozygous individual, then do the same with another divergent line, maximum heterosis will likely occur, yet nobody goes there.
eg if you take the time to find via selfing your most homozygous individual, then do the same with another divergent line, maximum heterosis will likely occur, yet nobody goes there.