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hybrid vs open pollinated seeds
Open pollinated seeds Open-pollinated varieties are the traditional varieties which have been grown and selected for their desirable traits for ... they have been selected under organic conditions. These varieties have better flavour, are hardier and have more flexibility than hybrid varieties. Breeders cannot manipulate complex characteristics such as flavour ...
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Rhododendrons
Principally, rhododendrons are used as landscaping plants and many hybrid varieties are available. Artists and craftspeople also use the hard, twisted wood in making walking sticks ...
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The State of India's Biodiversity
According to the FAO, replacement of local varieties forms the largest contribution to biodiversity erosion. Replacement of local varieties by a select number of high yielding hybrid varieties (mono-cropping) has been vigorously promoted ...
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Plant breeding
Backcrossing involves both hybridization and selection. Hybrid varieties: Plant scientists exploit the characteristic feature of better yielding ‘hybrids’ in plants. Hybrid vigour, or hetrosis as it is scientifically ... the parents themselves. Many hybrid varieties of several crop species are being grown all over the world today. An example of this is the hybrid tomatoes that we eat ...
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Science in Society no.35 index
It is often claimed that hybrid varieties are preferred because they are inherently superior; they possess “hybrid vigour”, and are higher yielding. But at least two ... The real motivation for breeding hybrid varieties was simply that they are more profitable for the producer. The costly and failed attempts in the 1980s to produce hybrid wheat, which is difficult ...
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Why and how of Saving your own Seeds
Pepper and eggplant flowers can be cross-pollinated by insects, so different varieties of ... eggplants will be immature. Left on the plant, purple eggplant varieties will ripen to a dull-brownish color and will turn ...
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SABO's Avian Oddities: Hybrid Mallard at Sweetwater Wetlands
Businesses Birding Tips & Sites | Hummingbirds | Birding NW Mexico | Photo Albums | Links | Contact SABO A hybrid Mallard discovered at Sweetwater Wetlands 26 February 2001 by Jim Parks This unusual drake ... back-cross of an F1 hybrid to a Common Mallard. Another possible explanation is a cross between a wild Mallard and any of several domesticated Mallard varieties commonly kept as ornamentals. ...
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ManyTracks - Heirloom Varieties
A comprehensive listing of mail order seed companies, the standard (open pollinated) varieties they offer, and the varieties which have been dropped. Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory, by Kent Whealy and ... family businesses, so please be understanding when contacting them. All strongly support and promote non-hybrid, usually organic, seed. Most are also actively involved in or a part of a seed ...
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Gardening on the Homestead - Some Interesting Crops and Varieties
DeCicco Broccoli. With this great non-hybrid broccoli available, I don’t know why anyone would choose to grow a hybrid. Available from many sources, including High Altitude Gardens ... garlic (or two or ten) that suits you. Although the softneck varieties tend to be better keepers, the hardneck varieties have that beautiful curling flower stalk (worth growing just for that!). I ...
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What Are Hybrid Big Cats?
What Are Hybrid Big Cats? WHAT ARE HYBRID BIG CATS? WHAT ARE HYBRID BIG CATS? Zoos and menageries once bred exotic-looking hybrid big cats to attract the public just as hybrid small cats (Bengal ... to a single watering hole, there is opportunity for lust between species, resulting in "many varieties of hybrids". In "The Variation Of Animals And Plants Under Domestication" Charles Darwin wrote: "Many ...
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