Re: Tetraploids & Flow Cytometry
At 03:51 PM 02/08/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>anyone who wishes to comment.
---
OH for heaven's sake: let's get with it; and get away from, beating around
the bush; talking in riddles; and say it, the way it actually is with
hostas, for example:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING, as truly Tetraploid hostas! Perhaps and maybe one
or two tho'? By my opinion, this one plant may be very close to being a
true-Tetra i.e. 'Rupifraga Tetra' which came out of Germany; and this, by
it's sterility factor with all other hostas?
Nurseries, can advertise that "This/that or another hosta is a Tet!" all
they want and feel like? (it helps their sales, I guess, because people
think they are getting something extra as a bonus.) but until such time, as
the actual documentation from a reputatable & credited-laboratory is
provided with the purchased POLYPLOID plant; and proving, beyond a shadow
of a doubt in black & white (on paper?) that the plant has
doubled-chromosome-counts --- then it is all bull-shit! --- wouldn't
everyone think? ;))
As for determining polyploid status via some kind of "Flowing Cemetery"
well -- "humor and having fun?" -- is what life's all about! -- isn't
it? LOL!
Anyone interested in the *Hosta Polyploid SCAM* can read the whole story,
when the book is published? LOL!
respectfully submitted and remaining
sympatically yours
William Nash Guelph Ontario Canada Zone 4 <raffi@sympatico.ca>
SYMPATICO = Bell Canada's High Speed Internet Connection ...running at the
speed of fibre-optics (light?)
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