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yes, that’s my thinking. The one used to breed in this instance wasn’t one of the phenotypes with the berry smell, or at least doesn’t pass that trait on when breeding with it.
I m not quite sure if i got it right. Are you saying that the trait for berry flavor could be within the DNA of NL5 but was just not expressed in the breeding plant that Nevil used? In that case some of the offspring could express berry flavors and you could say those are NL5 leaning even though the mother did not smell berry like but the trait was passed on though?