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Eric Focht: Avocado Genetics and Improvement

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta

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Was It Really a Seed to Flesh Ratio?

Seed to flesh ratio is a big, big part of the improvement process. A you specially see that you see in mexican variety. Mexican fruitis very small. Often m it has a small seed, but the fruit itself is small. Somebof the's gatermollen ones. If you go on the inner net and you sort of look up like wild guatermullen type obacatos,. you can have a seed that's the size of a golf ball, and the flesh around that is is like an eight eighth of an inch. But most of the ones, just to clarify genetics, most of the things that we see to day are a combination -

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