I dunno, but speaking of genetic diversity, and diversity in general,
I've been looking at seed catalogs this year, and is it my imagination
or are catalogs cutting back on what they are offering, both in hybrids
and in heirloom stuff. In so many magazines, I see only one or two
selctions for a crop. Take strawberries...it seems like in the old
days, you could find 6-10 varieties of everbearing types,,,,now, maybe
there are 3. Anyone noticed this? Two kinds of asparagus, 3 kinds of
eggplants, etc. etc.
Bev
VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
Question,
Do you think that cloning is a bigger threat to
genetic diversity than the current system of selective
breeding and planting of hybrids?
It seems to me that genetic diversity has been in
jeopardy for a long time.
Van Dell
--- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/vdjor%40yahoo.comThe moretruly economically
cloned animals that are raised, if this becomes
viable, the less genetic diversity there will be.Genetic diversity,
in my opinion anyway, is part of our foodsecurity.
Absolutely. This is one reason I support
open-pollinated seed
sources. There is, I believe, a government seed bank
in Colorado. But
who wants to rely on the government to take care of
serious issues
like food?
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