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Genetic Origin of Cultivated Citrus Determined: ...Evidence of Origins of Orange, Lime, et al
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| 01-26-2011
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Posted on 01/26/2011 5:47:23 AM PST by Red Badger
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IOW, they are or may be man-made................You put the lime in the coconut and dink 'em both up.....
To: Red Badger
I’d like to know what was the hybridizing technique. Grafting?
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posted on
01/26/2011 5:52:57 AM PST
by
decimon
To: Red Badger
And my favorite meyer lemon.
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posted on
01/26/2011 5:53:30 AM PST
by
doodad
To: decimon
Probably direct stamen to pistil cross pollination............
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posted on
01/26/2011 5:55:39 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: decimon
Grafting doesn’t mix genes AFAIK. You have to pollinate flowers of one with pollen from the other.
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posted on
01/26/2011 5:56:56 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: coloradan
Hey don’t you think it’s a little early in the morning to be talking about cross pollination.........
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:03:12 AM PST
by
Lockbox
(`)
To: Red Badger; coloradan
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:03:48 AM PST
by
decimon
To: coloradan
Correct.
In fact, you can grow multiple types of citrus fruit on one tree..............
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:04:56 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: decimon
Only if there are large numbers of both types of fruit near each other.
But then the seeds of the cross pollinated fruit have to be planted, cultivated and matured to fruit bearing age, approximately 7-10 years, so wild cross pollination is seldom “brought to fruition”..........
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:07:33 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: Red Badger
So in other words, Noah didn’t have to take all varieties of citrus with him on the ark. He only needed 2, one male, one female.
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:10:10 AM PST
by
faucetman
(Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
To: decimon
And that’s why birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
To: faucetman
I consider evolution to be a fairy tale. The concept of “kind” really has great value in explaining how the diversity of life arose after the flood.
To: ClearCase_guy
This really isn’t “evolution” in the classic sense, it’s plant breeding at it’s finest................
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:21:40 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: faucetman
I don’t think he took any plants or cultivars other than what was necessary to feed themselves..............
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:31:36 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: Red Badger
I got interested in this whole topic about the time the orange evolved into the Screwdriver.
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:34:27 AM PST
by
Stosh
To: Red Badger
Are you trying to tell me that citrus wasn’t invented in Anderson’s grocery store in my little home town?
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:37:00 AM PST
by
tubebender
(The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Eureka...)
To: tubebender
Sorry, ‘bout that chief....................
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:38:54 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: Stosh
...and the lime evolved into a Margarita...........
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:39:59 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: decimon
Dont bees do that?Birds do it, bees do it,
even monkeys in the trees do it...
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posted on
01/26/2011 6:49:53 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 736 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: decimon
They do, but with a little less certainty of which pollen goes into which flower than if a person does it. Bees typically go from flower to flower on the same tree, rather than back and forth from tree to tree every time. So they are much less efficient at cross pollination than is a person bent on hybridizing a particular set of strains.
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posted on
01/26/2011 7:07:45 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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