Re: Fire and Ice vs Loyalist
- Subject: Re: Fire and Ice vs Loyalist
- From: J* H*
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 14:02:41 -0400
Rich and other y'alls,
My instincts tell me that laboratory analysis would not be able to "prove"
such truths as to whether a given sport derived from one source such as a
garden in one location is identical to an apparently identical sport in a
different location. The same could be said of a sport which appearred in a
tissue culture laboratory. One container may produce one sport and another
may produce another sport which is not identical for no apparent reason
other than that a nuclear mutation may have occurred in one culture and not
another..
I think the key to understanding the meaning of this question is to look into
the historical basis to prove whether a parent of a given sport has the same
clonal relationship to a parent of another sport in question. My hunch is
that if we could prove historical clonal relationships of the parents of
sports in question, we might be able to prove that sports in question are
identical because of this clonal background similarity....i.e the parents
may be historical clones which is the basis for the similarity (or better,
the identicality). Thus, most sports from either of the parents may be
identical irrespective of location of origin because of the identical nature
of the inherited plastid characteristics involved....once they are completely
sorted out, that is. My hunches are based partly upon the similarities
already explained today in another message re 'Parky's Prize' and other
sports, such as one in my garden and 'Sweet Home Chicago'(Zilis) . Location
had nothing to do with the similarities but historical clonal relationships
of the parents of the sports had a lot to do with determining the
similarities, in my opinion.
Jim Hawes.
Jim Hawes
HoroRL@aol.com wrote:
> Hi, y'all:
>
> Would cellular or tissue microscopic analysis [such as flow cytometry] be
> able to sort out if sports from the same hosta but from different gardens
> were the same hosta?
>
> Hostally,
>
> Rich Horowitz
> Stoughton MA
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