stickshift
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I had to read the thread again thanks for the good info GMT but i am set on this and will do it regardless, these F1 plants look way to good not to be given a second chance. this crop should be a short one though jan-feb harvest so i will let you guys know the outcome soon enough, thanks for all the info so far but i think this needs more discussion way more, i am with Tom on this one, the hermi trait should not be too hard to breed out imo.
is that why with the progeny of these so called plants you see more of the same?
no intersex can be both.. a female(XX) cannot genetically throw out males of the XY type.. it can show as an XX but that indicates a problem to me, be it in pathways or with an "sry" type gene.. the Y imo has TE (transposable elements) these could lead to problems, some plant types seem to stop recombining due to degeneration on the Y. Some say dosage compensation can kick in and evolve de novo like with silene, but we could turn it on its head, what if the lack of Y caused it? some say the Y chromosome in males controls a relative larger proportion of genetic variance..I am looking at Breeding a good strain to help me so that i don't have to work extra to compete with the others in my area. I am also assuming an intersex plant would be XY* almost the same for a male XY. i read somewhere that the y chromosome is faulty on inter-sexed plants. is that why a intersex + female don't throw back full males?