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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming
  • Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:04:01 -0500

Now that the USDA collection has been fingerprinted, the whole naming issue
is going to be huge. For instance, for those of us in the Northeast, the
Porcelain garlics have done the best. Now, the DNA fingerprinting is
showing that genetically, there is only one Porcelain garlic. I suggested
that those of us who maintain collections simply cull our Porcelain
"strains" to the one that performs the best for us. But, out of all those
names, what the heck do we call it if Music=German Extra Hardy=German
White=Georgia Crystal, etc?

Dorene - I heard Stern go over this at PASA, things like the soil making the strains look different, etc. I took it for granted when he said it, but I'm having a hard time putting it into perspective with your comments above. It's probably just me not having the proper language to understand what a 'strain' really means. Let me ask you this: If all Porcelain is genetically identical, why do some 'porcelains' out perform others...even on the same soil? -Allan




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