Thoughts on the listing of artificial hybrid seedlings of orchids

Author: Yuesha

In recent years, the technology of tissue culture and hybridization has been gradually improved, and orchids have been propagated rapidly. the concept of tissue culture and hybridization is briefly introduced here. Tissue culture is equivalent to cloning, that is, no matter how many genes are cloned, they are almost the same. Cross (including self-crossing) is the breeding of a new variety, and its genes are different from those of both male and female parents, including the genes of each seedling are completely different, which is equivalent to that of multiple births, but it is definitely not the same person!

Then the problem arises. For example, countless seedlings have been sown from the seeds of Cheng Mei and Dayipin. These countless seedlings should be different, but it seems that merchants will sell them with multiple varieties. Or is it sold in one variety? Take Jian Lan Hongyue as an example, why there are so many different products? in fact, they are not the same breed, but their male parents are the same as their female parents. Push back if you see a variety that appears on the market with a large number of similar but different offerings, you can also guess that it may be an artificial hybrid.

So now the hybrid seedlings on the market are selected from the same batch of two products that are good and very similar. How should they be named? Will it be defined by two varieties? How should we judge the future circulation of the market?