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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] FW: Plant Breeding News
  • Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:31:16 -0700

Title: Re: [gwl-g] FW: Plant Breeding News
The significance of this is that before now, there was no way to breed varieties of garlic resistant to diseases, or to make ANY changes in the plants.   The best you could do previously was either to keep trying other garlic varieties and hope one had the resistance needed, or give up and grow some other crop entirely.  So this is an important step.  I suppose vampires wouldn't think so, though.   



>1.10  Mystery of garlic's sterility solved


Now there's a headline for my gardening column!  And to think that we never
really knew that garlic felt so badly about its sterility it had to have an
entire team of researchers solve it.

Does this mean we'll have a bunch of little garlics running around the
halls any day now?  I mean, how would you put a diaper on a garlic bud?  Or
do you have to - with those filmy wrappers they all seem to come in?

Has anybody warned the lady garlics that the guys are now "solved"?  This
could be big news around the health food counter.

And finally, was it a mystery to us or to the garlic?  After all, sometimes
if you've been eating garlic people won't want to talk to you and tell you
important things.

Ah well, a beautiful day here in Eastern Ontario and I'm stuck in the
office instead of roaming the roads and putting the sails up on the
boat.  But now, with this mystery solved I will at least sleep soundly tonight.

Doug



Douglas Green
Award winning writer - making things happen
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