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Old June 20, 2015   #38
Darren Abbey
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Originally Posted by rubbe87 View Post
why would crossing all wild tomato species into one plant decrease genetic diversity in that plant should it not become much higher then a normal wild tomato plant?
One plant produced from inbreeding over several generations (the conventional way of breeding tomatoes) will have no genetic diversity at all, by any definition of biological diversity. You need heterozygosity, multiple plants, or both.
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