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Re: Line breeding vs hybridization

From: StellrJ at aol.com on 2001.06.24 at 05:30:19(6862)
In a message dated Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:58:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Jill Bell writes:
<< To me one of the best examples of ruining a species by hybridization are
meat cows. They need winches to pull out their young, they would not
survive in nature at all.
This is a tremendously interesting discussion!
Yes. But then there is Maize Corn. Its seeds remain locked tightly within the husk until man frees them -- obviously incapable of perpetuating itself in nature -- yet it has been thus for thousands of years.

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