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Originally Posted by icelord
I Know who if he wanted to, could figure it out!! tw... that was a whisper
he probably knows anyway!!!  |
Nope, Tom wouldn't know either. Actually he doesn't pay that much attention to tomato varieties other than the ones he uses in his breeding programs.
The definitive way would be to do a DNA analyisis, but that wouldn't work either b'c you have to have the analysis of the suspected/known parents to compare with and that's not possible.
And only partial DNA maps have been analyzed and those were involved with law suits by a few commercial growers who claimed they weren't sold the seeds they expected. It costs lots of money to have that done and it's done in only a few labs, mainly those doing research but a few labs will do contract work .
I've known Tom since about 1990 so I do know him fairly well, and we've aged together, me on the East Coast and he on the West Coast.
