chalyse said:Also, there's been some input from others in the DL forum ... maybe we could ask for a simple rust-counter in the DB, that each garden-grower and hybridizer could 'report' an individual case (kind of like a running survey)?
And, since there had been success in the fuchsia community with using the same kind of survey-reporting data to develop mite-resistant info (used by hybridizers to strengthen, not eliminate, strains they are working with) ... maybe that kind of reporting would lend itself well to thrips in the database? just a thought, as there's seems to be so much that regular folks, as well as hybriders, can do collectively to identify useful lines for crossing in additional vigor into the future...
chalyse said:I'm assuming you mean one box made available in a cultivar's database page that can toggle from 1.0 to 5.0? If so, I have that data already, as aggregate averages in the scores (the source of what was used to name a cultivar Susceptible or Resistant). But, sent as decimal numbers, we could sort the database to return 1.0's ("vertically resistant"), 1.1-2.4 through each decimal setting ( for "horizontally tolerant" cultivars), as well as for 2.5-4.0 (researcher recommended range for preserving future-helpful rust-fighting genes that may be recessive or do not match current rust isolates), and even 4.1-5.0 for the small number of cultivars that only seem to survive rust with extreme chemical applications. Helpful on so many levels to a large spectrum of folks.
I'll send you the cultivar names now with their overall averaged (single) decimal-number scores, in case this all makes sense and is really do-able.