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To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 9:49
AM
Subject: Pollen Parent
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Jim
No doubt you will get better informed responses,
than mine, but let's see -- as you have already noted, the production of
seedlings with streaks or variegation, is limited to the influnce of the pod
parent alone. That result will depend on some streakness in the pod
parent. The rest of the process, can be equally contributed to be ether
or both parents. At this point in your thinking, you would have to have
a good idea , what chariteristics, were "dominant" in a given parent, and
those that are recessive, in order to determine what crosses you might make (
or not make) If wavyness on the margins is dominant in both parents, you are
very much more likely to get that in the offspring.
Thanks
Ran
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Would any of you good Ladies and
Gentlemen care to go into detail as to
what the pollen parent brings to
the sporting process, that we have been
discussing? Most emphasis has been
focused on the pod parent in the
discussion of streaks. Other than
variegation what does the pollen influence
in the breeding? What are the
roles of pod and pollen in petiole and scape
coloring, leaf vein and leaf
color (i.e., producing a . 01 green or "black"
on the wheel)? What are the
influences on inflorescence and scent?
Jim
Towle......
