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Re: Line breeding vs hybridization
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From: "Eduardo Goncalves" edggon at hotmail.com> on 2001.06.26 at 05:56:16(6884)
Dear Jim,
What I am trying to say (in my Tarzan's English) is that now we know lots
of examples of spontaneous or semi-spontaneous hybrids being treated as good
species by Linnaeus. Now we know that Linnaeus' Musa paradisiaca is one of
the hybrids of Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The problem is that we
only know that it is an hybrid because we like bananas. However, there are
many "respectable" good species that are, in fact, natural hybrids. We do
not know about them just because they are poorly studied. So we call them
like Linnean binomials. The only difference is that now we know about their
history. If all of them were economically important, it is possible that we
would only have a few Linnean names to apply.
Best wishes,
Eduardo.
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>From: Lewandjim@aol.com
>Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org
>To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
>Subject: Re: Line breeding vs hybridization
>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:43:33 -0500 (CDT)
>
>In a message dated 6/24/2001 8:36:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>edggon@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< Dear Jim,
>
> Now you put my brain in complete confusion. We must remember that the
> link between cultivated and wild species is too narrow. >>
>
>Hey Eduardo,
>
>You misinterpret what I said. Linnaeus in his early taxonomic efforts
>treated
>some domestic hybrids as "species" - the dog is NOT a species but a hybrid
>of
>a mishmash of wolf subspecies plus ??? (who knows what)! It should not be
>given a binomial epithet under international rules.
>
>Even today many long named plant "species" are being recognized as
>"non-species" of domestic or perhaps even naturally-occurring hybrids. The
>best treatment of this subject that I know is given in Schmid's THE GENUS
>HOSTA.
>
> Jim Langhammer
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