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[Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>]

> trying to develop a plant ...in a backyard venture is like hitting the 
>Lotto. 

This may be true, but I hope it doesn't discourage us amateurs from trying 
anyway. Even if we each have only a one in a million chance, if there are a 
million of us trying, one of us is probably going to find something good.

If the odds discourage us, then we leave plant breeding in a few, centralized 
hands, that are not necessarily selecting for traits we care about.

Melissa