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Originally Posted by brownrexx
I have seen these type of comments before and I am wondering why people would want to dehybridize a hybrid?
Aren't the characteristics of the hybrid what is desirable in the first place? Why would you want to mess with that and lose some of those characteristics that made is a good hybrid to start with.
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Hybrids are valuable for two main reasons. Hybrids often are more vigorous/productive than their parents, which is valuable to the grower. Hybrids are also highly restricted (because only the producer knows which parents went into the hybrid), which is valuable to the producer alone. A dehybridized strain can be an equal or better than the hybrid that was sold in terms of production/taste/etc., but it takes a lot of work to get there. The effort that goes into the process essentially takes control of the crop from the seed producer and gives it back to the farmer.