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Post by nicolas on Feb 12, 2014 3:01:10 GMT -5
Skirret (Sium sisarum) could benefit from some basic screening. Just get seeds from various sources, select for best individuals and then propagate and share vegetatively. If a lot of people do that, we will get a bunch of good strains ! An example here, by Ian Pearson : Skirret—Growing, Selecting (and Eating)@graham talked about improving by inducing some mutations, can you elaborate on this ?
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Post by orflo on Feb 12, 2014 6:33:54 GMT -5
At the university of Wageningen (the Netherlands), someone tried for years to bring the cluster of roots back to one carrot-like root, but not a single attempt worked...Perhaps an attempt to cross it in with the Northamerican sium suave could be an option, although I have my doubts if such an attempt would succeed. Sium suave didn't do well in my Belgian garden, I placed it on a wet spot, but it didn't thrive, in contrast to skirret.
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Post by Graham on Feb 12, 2014 13:40:05 GMT -5
I suggested chromosome doubling skirret. Polyploidy usually results in larger/thicker plant parts and could increase the overall size of the root. Cant say for sure it would work but I think it's worth a try.
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Post by nicolas on Feb 12, 2014 13:57:17 GMT -5
It seems a lot of great things in breeding involves polyploidy (to increase size or restore fertility)
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Post by robertb on Mar 15, 2014 5:46:54 GMT -5
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Post by nicolas on Mar 15, 2014 10:11:49 GMT -5
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Post by robertb on Mar 15, 2014 15:33:51 GMT -5
That splits partway down the root, and there's no sign of its having more than the one growing point. It's an extreme case of carrot splitting, but it's not skirret!
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Post by nicolas on Jan 6, 2015 2:06:22 GMT -5
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Post by darrenabbey on May 4, 2015 11:09:10 GMT -5
I've got Skirret seedlings now coming up in the garden. I ordered the seeds via Amazaon.com and they ended up coming from Slovenia as a market-packaged seeds. Hopefully later in the year I will have some interesting/useful diversity to work with.
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