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Old 17-05-2008, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Capsid
F2 will be weaker than F1 but more uniform. The recessive genes for colour will be selected for when breeding and crossing from the F1 stock that results in most of the F2 plants will look the same.
But does this 'weaker' only apply to your delphinium example?

Here's a link to creating stable tomato strains - it doesn't talk about f2s being 'weak'?

Tomato Genes
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