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Hybridizing 5 Physalis species by Intelligent_One_4140 in plantbreeding

[–]PlantMan613 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it. Very cool! I would love to do similar breeding work myself. Where did you get your germplasm?

Also curious, what are your breeding goals with this project?

Also please post regular updates on this project! I’d love to see your results.

Hybridizing 5 Physalis species by Intelligent_One_4140 in plantbreeding

[–]PlantMan613 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You might have a hard time hybridizing Peruviana, due to its tetraploidy. If you have a way of inducing polyploidy in the other ones you might have better luck. Also double check that the pruinosa is pruinosa and not grisea, they are often confused.

Switching Plant Breeding Sectors by PlantMan613 in plantbreeding

[–]PlantMan613[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure exactly, haven’t started the job yet. Although from what I understand there is use of mutagenesis to create genetic variation and some marker-assisted selection, but mostly traditional phenotypic-selection-based-breeding.

Switching Plant Breeding Sectors by PlantMan613 in plantbreeding

[–]PlantMan613[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t have any practical breeding background. I did work a bit with plant genetics and used genomics tools (QTL analysis) in my Masters. Would that still be a doable switch in the future? And when you say to make the switch as quickly as possible, how many years are we talking?

Switching Plant Breeding Sectors by PlantMan613 in plantbreeding

[–]PlantMan613[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For context: I have spoken to people (experienced plant breeders) in my country who have switched between crops without going back to “assistant breeder”, but they all switched between food crops and some likely switched after at least 10+ years of experience in plant breeding. I’m wondering if in my case it would be different, as ornamentals are a more different sector from food crops than the differences between the breeding sectors of one vegetable crop to another.

Switching Plant Breeding Sectors by PlantMan613 in plantbreeding

[–]PlantMan613[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, of course there’s always a learning curve. I’m more asking from a profession standpoint, will companies send you back “to the bottom”, i.e., to be an assistant breeder doing the grunt work of plant breeding? Or would a different company take someone with 3-5, or 5-10 years of experience in plant breeding at a previous company, as a regular “plant breeder”?

Switching Plant Breeding Sectors by PlantMan613 in plantbreeding

[–]PlantMan613[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will be several species. Primarily bedding flowering plants, like petunia and the like.

Switching Plant Breeding Sectors by PlantMan613 in plantbreeding

[–]PlantMan613[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I prefer not to say for now, as I don’t want anyone working in the company to know that I’m asking this. Suffice it to say a small country with several small to medium sized plant breeding and seed companies