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Webster, NY

When you are trying to decide what seed to plant in the spring, and you are looking at the genetics, do you look at the female part of the plant or the male polinator as being the most important aspect in selecting the seed.
An example: which might be better

Female: 846 Calai '99 Male: 801.5 Stelts '97
Female: 801.5 Stelts 97 Male: 846 Calai '99

Or doesn't make much difference. Thanks for any information you can give me. I hope I've worded this question correctly.

2/13/2002 8:21:20 PM

Deer Park, WI

If you want to get scientific about it, then here it goes- The mitochondria and chloroplasts are maternally inherited. This means that these vitally important little plant organelles only come from the females. If you beleive there are seeds with superior mito's and chloro's (which I beleive there are), then you would want the female side to have these genes. Some also believe that color is more influenced by the male.

2/13/2002 10:25:16 PM

Deer Park WA

Steely, Dude it's Valentines Day I would go with planting the seed in the dominate female ;~}

2/14/2002 11:57:52 PM

western Kentucky

Hey Joe.... if the mitochondria and chloroplasts are inherited from the female side... then doesn't that mean that the amount of gluclose that the chloroplasts produce would depend upon the female... if that is the case... and since the fruit is where this is stored.. the size of the fruit would be more heavily influenced by the female side of the cross... am i right?.... and then since the female side also conrtols the mitochondria... wouldn't that mean that the female side would also decide how much energy was produced within the cells.... again am i right? ... and if that is true would that mean that the female side of the cross would influence the seed of plant the growth?

Okay i have no idea what i am talkin about...lol...

Justin

2/15/2002 2:30:00 AM

western Kentucky

spelling correction
... and if that is true would that mean that the female side of the cross would influence the **speed** of plant the growth?

2/15/2002 2:31:33 AM

Deer Park, WI

I like your thinking Justin- And I dont think you are too far off the mark here. The relations you stated may not be completely direct, but the logic makes sense. Too bad we cant take a mito from a 935 and put it in a race with a mito from a 567, then we would know the significance of females. The best we can do now is compare the success of crosses where males and females have been switched.

2/15/2002 8:47:21 AM