On 14 July, 17:16, Michael Bell wrote:
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* * * * * Janet Baraclough wrote:





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I have concieved the truly wild idea of developing alder into a grain
crop. If you look at the cones on some alder trees and imagine them as
ears of wheat, you can see it would be a good crop. And alder fixes
nitrogen and grows on the uplands. The uplands are 40% of the land
area of this country, which cannot feed itself. I can send fuller
details to anybody interested.
But cones of alder are not ears of wheat, the seeds are far too small.
My plan is to breed for bigger seeds by traditional plant breeding
methods and the starting point for that is seeds from
naturally-occurring alders.#
. I
have bought a series of sieves which will let the normal seeds through
but will hold back the 1 bigger seed in 10 000? normal sized seeds.
* *? You're making an assumption that a larger seed, will produce a tree
*that also bears larger seeds?
* *I've not noticed that feature *in any other plants which produce
multiple seeds (beans for example)
* *Janet

It's the basis of all plant breeding!

Michael Bell

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Not any more it isn't. (Genetic Engineering)