Would using one plant as a fertilizer give the other same attributes? If not would it be possible to take a grass like plant and breed it with an edible plant? Like lettus or potatoes?
2007-02-09 02:29:15 · 4 answers · asked by Rob 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
It's not that easy. To cross breed two plants they have to be reproductively compatable. So crossing grass with potatoes (or any other vegetable) is out, but you could cross two kinds of potatoes. The more closely related, the more likely it is that you will succeed.
Using one plant as a fertilizer for another will have no effect, because there is no DNA transfer to the recipient.
2007-02-09 02:35:49 · answer #1 · answered by floundering penguins 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, sorry. You cannot cross breed plants as different as grasses and lettuce any easier than you can cross breed chickens with horses. The only plants that you can cross breed are those within the same family, as in pea plants, or squash plants. You can get hybrid plants such as nectarines, and certain types of citrus by graphing --- graphing a branch of one onto the base stock of another, aligning the xylem and phloem up and binding,,, read about it in any internet source try -- plants --- graphing.
Regarding the first part of your question, any plant is fertilizer, when it decays, but the plant using it takes up no physicial attributes of the decayed plant. American Indians knew that if they planted seeds with a dead fish, that as the fish rotted, it fertilized the plant. Ancient Egyptians knew that blood was an excellent plant fertilizer.
2007-02-09 09:23:21 · answer #2 · answered by April 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
flow breeding is really quite uncommon in nature, yet quite complication-free in cultivation. each little thing we devour and farm etc has gone through some variety of guy-made determination. except for dropping the unique wild species i visit't see something undesirable. perchance some effective characteristics may be lost interior the technique of having yet another trait. some combos of genes may nicely be deadly eg tailessness in cats, in breeding mynx cats you get countless mess united statesas one mix of genes is deadly, one provides no tail and one is a tail, some breeds may have well being topics eg pug dogs with respiration topics, an infection in flaps of dermis round nostril, artheritis in large dogs. volatile? For the most area, no.
2016-11-26 19:13:14 · answer #3 · answered by inabinet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can try "Cross Pollination" and "Grafting".
Example: Apples need a cross pollinator like a Pear tree to produce apples. Many not know this.
2007-02-09 02:38:54 · answer #4 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋