Time to start putting the theory into practice Rick.
Well it's an old theory, but I feel that selection is the important thing when breeding. When you do the S1's and subsequent generations, I feel that you will need to be as carefull about the selections that you make as you would with outcrossing. The health may decline at a faster rate and the "sameness" may dissappear just as quickly. Statistical probabilites of hypotheses aren't usefull in what you are doing at all. As if one seed in 1000 is the one you need to use, the outcome isn't the result of the probability, but rather of whether or not you use it.
englishrick said:hay benj ,,,,,have a think about this ,,,,,,
Quantitative trait locus location is indicated only by looking at which markers give the greatest differences between genotype group averages,...
ITS THE SPECIAL CLONES THAT ARE THE MARKERS,,,,,,,they actualy have a "special" coding, that makes "special" protine an thus a special phenotype,,,,,,,an it differs from the others in the same line.....
I seriously doubt that different plants within the same line are coding for different proteins, what makes the differences are the volumes of the proteins that are being coded for and the uses that the proteins are being put to. For example, a haze leaf and an afghani leaf will be made from the same proteins however their structures are entirely different.
rick if this works i may have some special bagseed lines that have been worked then selfed so you can find your "Quantitative trait locus location" but until i see this work