When we grow out the offspring from the two
females we will select the population of the
offspring that mostly resembles the mother
plant traits that we are looking to promote in
the population. What happens is that the best
male pollen should have been selected by the
female as the one that she prefers. The reason
for taking the 2 sets of pollen from 2 sets of
males is to create a control experiment to show
how this method actually interferes with the
frequencies of the gene pool. By right, your
selection of poor male pollen will only bring
about a poorer quality population that do not
resemble the female clone.
In reality we only select pollen from the
best males that most resemble the female when
we use this method.
Do you remember one of the laws that breaks
equilibrium? Non-random mating and Natural
selection. Well that is what we are doing here.
The resulting offspring should have a high
frequency for the traits that we like in the
mother plant.
The problem is that we do not know which
male from the bunch is the one that WON this
female over, but it is quicker and less time
consuming in creating a strain that is somewhat
uniform for a specific trait.
By repeating the process we can help
increase the mother plants trait frequency in
the offspring’s population but we will probably
