here is an excerpt from a pretty good article...and the link to this article is...http://www.garden.or...s?q=show&id=293
Hmmm, it makes no sense to me to say, "OP VS Hybrid." That's because we can get hybrids in OP.
here is an excerpt from a pretty good article...and the link to this article is...http://www.garden.or...s?q=show&id=293
Heh, that's a tricky part. That's why a basic text book would be helpful. It could explain the term and what is considered human intervention. Do they consider putting bags on flowers human intervention in plant breeding?
My book "breeding your own vegetable varieties" Carole Deppe makes it even more confusing. I agree with AJ, use "isolated" or "not isolated" to avoid confusion
"Open pollinated variety
A stable variety, a variety that breeds true from seed. (Normally maintained by allowing natural pollination under field conditions but hand pollination is sometimes used to achieve the equivalent.) Not a hybrid"
Exactly. (T)he main problem is when people use OP to mean not isolated which is wrong by all definitions
EXACTLY! I don't want to seem arrogant, but I'm not sure why people feel this is confusing. I think a lot of people are looking too much into the the words "open" and "pollination". I realize "Open Pollination" may be defined differently in different contexts. In the case of fruit and vegetable breeding, the opposite of "Open Pollinated" is "Hybrid", not "Closed Pollination". Don't look too deeply into it. This has little to do with isolation and what kind, other than that a successful plant breeder uses isolation to preserve purity of his/her OP veggie.
All heirlooms are OP however, not all OP fruits and veggies are heirlooms. If you want to preserve the traits of your heirloom you isolate it.
So yeah, seed could be described as "Isolated" or "Non-Isolated", OP should not be used in place of "non-isolated".
By the definition in the beginning of this tread it makes no sense to say a hybrid is the opposite.
Why?
The Bhut may be a result of a cross, but it has stabilized (which doesn't mean variations don't exist) over many, many generations. It is now an OP variety, not a hybrid (F1) in terms of vegetable breeding. If your OP varieties are cross pollinated (by a different variety or compatible species) the offspring are hybrids not OP anymore. You are still confusing "Open Pollinated" variety with Non-Isolated I think. I recommend reading some literature on plant breeding and seed saving, they may clarify the difference better than I. "Hybrid" is another term in which many definitions are used depending on context, adding to the confusion.
Yes thats one definition we've discussedopen pollinated is slang for non-isolated, i mean if it's not isolated, who cares what you call it?
No worries, I plan to borrow some books on plant breeding from libraries. I didn't know they were talking about f1 hybrids. The DNA in the bhut jolokia shows c. chinnese with a bit of c. frutescen. Of course this is irrelevant if by hybrid they mean f1 hybrids!
Technically f1s are the only hybrid stage, after that they are inbreeding or dehybridizing
I think technically hybrid means f1(although that too can be debated) but when they say intra or inter species hybrid, it means that the crosses where originally either within the species or a cross between species. To avoid confusion, I prefer to use to word "cross" unless its an f1