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Selecting Like a Breeder

Breeding progress can be calculated. And the calculation shows something uncomfortable: picking the finest individual plant, which nearly every guide recommends, mostly selects for luck of position. Third course of the breeding series.

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There Is No Yield Gene

Why the traits you care about most escape the Punnett square.

How Heritable Is That?

The difference between two plants has two causes. You can only pass on one of them.

The Breeder's Equation

Three quantities, one calculation – and the answer to how far one generation takes you.

Selection Needs Equal Conditions

The third factor of the equation arises not in the plant but in your setup.

Choosing Fathers Without Flowers

Half the genes come from a plant on which you will never see the trait.