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How I got started breeding.
"I first got interested in the subject way back in the seventies when Sam Oldham gave me an article by Percy Craggs - this started to whet. My appetite. I obtained a N.C.S. publication on plant breeding by George Wilson, and then went into greater depth with a book by Ethel R. Hanauer - Biology Made Simple .
I commenced to cross late-flowering singles and then early-flowering sprays, I would recommend the beginner to start with those first."
You don't need sophisticated equipment to start with. You must know the physical make up of the flowering head and plant.
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Roots
To anchor plant in ground, to absorb water and mineral salts for the rest of the plant.
Stem
To support leaves, flower etc. Passage for vascular tubes.
Leaves
To manufacture food for plant. To give excess water, to effect exchange of gases for plant.
Flower
Contains reproductive organs of plant, in some instances attracts insects to ensure pollination.
Seed
Contains unborn plant (embryo), which will develop into new plant under suitable conditions and food store.
Vascular Systems
Bundles of tubes (arteries/veins), which contain and conducts water and salts upward from roots and carries dissolved food from leaves to other parts of plant.
By learning reproductive organs, this gives you a great insight into what hybridising is all about.
Anther
Pollen producing structure of stamen of flowering plants (part of the male reproductive organ).
Pistil
The female reproductive organ in this flowering plant.
Style
Passageway for pollen tubes and the ovary, which is at the base of pistil and which contains ovules in which seeds develop from female nuclei or eggs when injected with pollen.
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