beckygardener said:Maurice - Thanks so much for taking the time to try to educate me about conversions.
You're welcome.
I understand that any "new" tet conversion hinges on how stable it is. I wonder if over generations if the tet conversion "dip" genetics disappear in future hybridizing or if those genes continue forward into new tet seedlings? Do we know what happens by say the 3rd or 4th generation with conversion genes?
For practical purposes, once the conversion has been used in a cross and a tetraploid seedling has been produced it is a normal tetraploid and its genes, whether derived from the converted diploid or from the normal tetraploid, are indistinguishable. The genes will be all the same and they will all continue forward into new tet seedlings in exactly the same way and with exactly the same chances, etc. There are no differences between the genes derived from the converted diploid versus those derived from the normal tetraploid. There is nothing unusual that can happen to the genes from the converted diploid in any later generations.
