Team Echinacea established quantitative genetics experiments to quantify additive genetic variance of fitness in Echinacea, with the idea that we can estimate evolutionary potential of study populations. The plants in qGen2 and qGen3 are plants in the 1996, 1997, and 1999 cohorts. These plants were crossed with pollen from plants in remnants to produce seed for qGen2 and qGen3, which now inhabit exPt08. Originally, 12,813 seeds were sown in the common garden. Seeds from the same cross (shared maternal and paternal plants) were sown in meter-long segments between nails. This year we visited 1388 positions, found 758 basal plants, and 261 flowering plants.
- Start year: 2013 (qGen2) and 2015 (qGen3)
- Location: exPt08 (Wagenius property)
- Overlaps with:
- Data collected:
- Measure data (status, size, etc.)
- data in SQL database
- Measure data (status, size, etc.)
- Samples collected:
- None
- Products:
- None
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