According to Steve Hammer, using dandelion pollen along with self pollen can "trick" some mesembs (Aizoaceae) into selfing. So I'm liking the denaturing idea. - Dave On Sun, May 16, 2021, 5:14 PM Robert Lauf via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Sounds like a great thesis project, but the Achilles heel would be the > nonuniform power distribution making things hard to reproduce. One would > need to spend the first month with some thermal paper mapping the power in > the oven to see how granular it is. Putting a big mug of water in there > would help a bit, for reasons I won't bore you with, but even so, without > characterizing the cavity pretty thoroughly, it would be hard to reproduce > but possibly good enough to work! Results are more important than another > publication (unless you're that hapless grad student!) haha > Bob > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>