F-100 was selected because it was novel in that it is a male that puts out fruits. It hasn’t been shown to be any better a parent than any other male. Interestingly, there has been a lot of research out of Japan on diospyros sexuality. They have shown it to be epigenetically controlled. This helps explain a lot of the sexual fluidity exhibited by the hexaploid American persimmon. Males and females are essentially the same except one gender has methylation on the OGI gene and the other doesn’t.