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Originally Posted by bower
Minn Mato, I have a really small space to work in, so it's hard to grow enough plants at once to find a stack of recessive genes in one plant - my plan is to look for one recessive at a time, and if I can find two of the desired traits in two F2 plants, I'll cross them... That may not work for a six gene trait like fruit size though, if you can't tell which traits are present.
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The problem with this strategy is that when you cross the two F2s with different homozygous recessives... you end up with a new F1 that is heterozygous for those alleles and you have to then look for the multiple-homozygous progeny again.