Yellow leaves
- Subject: Yellow leaves
- From: "zonneveld" z*@rulbim.leidenuniv.nl
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:01:49 +0100
Some time ago Ran remarked that possibly the tardiana series has
some hidden yellow genes. Lets try to explain. Yellow is, with all
hostas, a dominant character That is to say, only a single gene
suffices to make a plant yellow Even 'worse' two genes never come
together as that is lethal. So it is impossible to have a pure yellow
strain Always around 50 % green will appear. So a hosta can
never have a hidden yellow gene. The occasional yellows one get
from beeseed of green or blue plants are due to stray pollen of a
yellow plant, never to a ''hidden' yellow gene ( see my article in the
Hosta j. about this subject)
Ben J.M.Zonneveld
Clusius lab pobox 9505
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
mintemp-16C(5F)
Zonneveld@RULbim.LeidenUniv.NL
Fax: 31-71-5274999
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