Re:The avocado is an evolutionary anachronism
by tinco on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:58PM
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If it was artificial selection, wouldn't the nut be smaller? All cultured fruit has really small nuts/seeds.
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Re:The avocado is an evolutionary anachronism
by maxerickson on Sunday June 02, 2019 @09:27PM
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You can only go so fast when it takes 10 to 15 years to see what you got. They also don't breed true, so lots of those plants will produce uninteresting fruits.
Trees like oaks have the potential to be great producers of crops but have largely eluded cultivation, because they take decades to fruit for the first time.