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[rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>]

This might be a little of topic, but I always wondered
how genetics worked in self fertile plants.  If a
plant is pollinated by the itself would that mean that
its childeren are clones of its parent, or would this
just allow recessive genes to be expressed?


--- Philip Stewart <philstewart24@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Part of hybrid vigor is a high level of
> heterozygosity, something no seed-propagated plant
> that has been "fixed" can ever have much of.  That
> said, there's no reason highly homozygous plants
> can't
> be plenty vigorous, assuming the deleterious
> recessive
> have been sorted out in the process. 
> 
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