Wow. Awesome work as always TCO!
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From what I gather from TMC each fruiting body consists of at least two (probably many more) substrains. This is what makes the mushroom adapt to it's environment as only the best suited substrains will will end up dominant when all the sorting is done.
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I never caught that, thats too cool. So when you clone an albino from an early strain, like what your working on, you still get a lot of non -albino fruits? And this is because the clone is actually more than one substrain? And since albinism is a trait, in so much that a life form is either albino or is not albino, why is it that some fruits that you describe (and have shown) are not true albinos but are light colored or mottled? Something here isn't clicking in my mind- but genetics has always boggled me.
One last question... Sorry if this has been covered and I missed it... How is the germination rate of albino spores? Do they do their thing? I'm just wondering if the pigment protects the genetic material from UV damage and, if that is the case, how well one could preserve an albino spore.
This stuff makes my head spin. I love it!