Re: [aroid-l] self pollination of aroids

From: MossyTrail at cs.com on 2003.05.21 at 03:40:40(10276) "Julius Boos" wrote: > >Dear Marc and Friends, > >perhaps there was more >and different genetic material available in apomixis for continued and later >cross-pollination in a population of plants that were started by just one >good seed originally produced from cross-pollination, but growing all by >itself in a remote area. ? ?I thought that perhaps reproduction by apomixis >(vs. cross-pollination) until there were a few plants in this new population >to enable cross-pollination to begin may be 'the better of two evils' as it >were, but obviously not as 'good' as cross-pollination in a large and >thereby very genetically variable population. I presume you are referring to heterozygousness (heterozygosity?); that is, your one single plant has two forms of an allele. Then, when it self-pollinates, the alleles may be recombined to produce previously-hidden diversity. Sorry, I am having trouble expressing myself clearly tonite. Jason Hernandez +More Naturalist-at-Large

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