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breeding Science is Amazing, attempting to creating a pepper hybrid cross

J

JesterJoker

I am attempting to create a pepper cross soon, and came across some good information, others might want to read about.


The Science of Hybrids:
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/crops_03.html


Hack Your Plants:
http://makezine.com/07/graft/


sure fire way to keep hybrids producing fruits that you like.

PLANT PROPAGATION: ASEXUAL PROPAGATION:
http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/propagation/asexual.html
 
Pepper hybridizing is fun, if a bit involved and time intensive. Science can produce some freaky results.

Case in point: Frankenpepper hybrids

I can't speak to the legitimacy of such research, but it's an interesting concept nonetheless.
 
I'm not really looking into grafting at all, mostly just pollinating and then back pollinating with previous generations with parents, inbred peppers of liked genes that I want to continue passing
I guess is the easiest explanation.

Its going to be fun.. I am going to document it.

and BTW a frankenpepper hybrid would be awesome..

especially if I can name it what ever I want....
 
I'm trying to get a few crosses established, though I made the mistake of using plants with tiny flowers so emasculating them usually turns into mutilation... but I'll get it eventually.
 
Working on several varieties myself, but I'm only 3-4 years into the process, so it might take a while. I overcame one of the more significant difficulties, which is the time one must wait between seasons, by growing 365 days a year with an indoor setup, but it's really small scale and didn't grow any this year... who knows, maybe a decade from now you'll be growing meh chiles. :lol:
 
Here are some good resources......

Pollination Methods: Peppers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9porsseQo&feature=youtu.be

Pepper Breeding.....
http://fatalii.net/growing/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=54

Tomato Genetic Basics (the principles are the same for peppers)

http://kdcomm.net/~tomato/gene/genes.html

And a PDF document:

The Genes of Capiscum

http://www.aseanbiotechnology.info/Abstract/21027547.pdf

:)
 
If your interested in these types of things like I am then here's one or two websites on breeding and genetics;

http://kdcomm.net/~tomato/

http://www.plbr.corn...si/peppers.

html http://fabiangarcias...reeding-an.html
http://www.aseanbiotechnology.info/Abstract/21027547.pdfhttp://www.aseanbiotechnology.info/Abstract/21027547.pdfhttp://www.aseanbiotechnology.info/Abstract/21027547.pdf
http://www.aseanbiot...ct/21027547.pdf

http://www.abc.hu/in...emid=47&lang=en

http://www.unitedgen...table_sweet.htm
http://www.genetics.org/content/152/3/1183.fullhttp://www.genetics.org/content/152/3/1183.fullhttp://www.genetics.org/content/152/3/1183.full
http://www.genetics....152/3/1183.full
http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v104/n1/full/hdy2009115a.htmlhttp://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v104/n1/full/hdy2009115a.htmlhttp://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v104/n1/full/hdy2009115a.html
http://www.nature.co...dy2009115a.html

http://lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:6124

http://www.faqs.org/...app/20100227041

http://jxb.oxfordjou...58/14/3841.full

http://www.homestead...mongrel01.shtml

http://www.intl-pag....GXVIII_139.html

http://www.extension...me:-pepper-heat

http://www.reeis.usd...ges/214475.html



have fun!!!!:cool:
 
JungleRain said:
If your interested in these types of things like I am then here's one or two websites on breeding and genetics...
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Dang, JungleRain, think you got enough links there? :lol:

Gonna have to bookmark this page for later, else I'll be up all night reading! ;)

+1
 
Hello.

Graft-induced changes can be performed by anybody, it doesn't require special material. It's almost as simple as a cutting. You just need to graft a very young plant on a mature one and notice changes. Graft has been used by humans for centuries if not milleniums.

Somatic hybrids are far more Franken-like to my opinion, as they're made using electrofusion of cells, you can fuse a potato cell with a tomato and see the result (yes, they did it). And I don't speak of GMOs...

This graft-induced changes experiment is reported here. It's said non-pungency, a recessive character caused by pun1 gene in many C. annuum varieties, was expressed in the scion and transmitted to the progeny. I think I'll try it next year with a non-pungent pepper as rootstock and a rocoto as scion, to transmit non-pungency to it. For the moment, C. pubescens is the only domesticated species that doesn't have at least one non-pungenct variety.
 
Should we start a 'TheHotPepper' genetics Team? Make our own pepper, sell it, make greenhouses all over the country, we all work there and we all win!
 
aspore said:
Should we start a 'TheHotPepper' genetics Team? Make our own pepper, sell it, make greenhouses all over the country, we all work there and we all win!
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Diversity in pepper, as in all domesticated species, is only amateurs' work. It took centuries to create plants to fit our own needs, of our own design. Don't ask a company to domesticate a wild form of plant from scratch and get a substantial new crop. Somehow, it's not so hard : I read about researchers who made high yielding strains of Hopniss (Apios americana), in just about 10 years. The project aborted due to money issues, as always. Crops and productivity at any price has never got on well, and I don't think they'll ever do. We're the only agents to this process, and anybody can do it well.

Amateur breeders are becoming rarer and rarer. Breed as much as you can, even if you don't have a clear goal. Breed, observe, taste, and keep what you like from them.
 
There is a group of people doing a cool project on a tomato growing site, they are collaborating between hemispheres so that they can grow out the crosses immediately, cross again and do it again.

I know there are some southern hemisphere people on here, would anyone be interested in a similar project?

I dont know the logistics of sending seeds back andd forth or abnything.. I know it would take some organization, but I t thought I'd throw the idea out there to see what people thought/
 
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