Re: sports
Okay, Chick. What is the address to which we send it?
Frances
Chick wrote:
> Dear hosta fans
> I hereby notify all of hostadom that I was the first person to discover
> that hostas can be divided. It was some time back. I will be requiring
> each of you that divides a hosta to send me a 10 cent royalty.
>
> Since Ben discovered sports, I think it only fair that any of us that
> play sports, send him a dime. Fortunately, I only play the bongos, and I
> think Desi Arnez discovered them. He's dead.
>
> Chick
>
> zonneveld wrote:
>
> > Dear Hosta Fans
> > Everybody can check in the hosta journal that I was the
> > first to explain in detail to the hosta community what a sport is . I
> > am happy to see that others have learned from it and are at least in
> > part able to reproduce it, although without any reference.
> > To answer the specific question about the difference between a
> > sport and a mutation::
> > First the definition:
> > A sport is a shoot deviating from the mother plant.
> > A sport CAN be due to a mutation but rarely is. It is mostly due to
> > a mitotic recombination or chimeral rearrangements . It is for sure a
> > sport due to a mutation if a green/blue plant changes to a variegated
> > one. See my Rule of thumb for sports in the hosta journal and in my
> > book on sport of hosta, where instead of a number the plants have a
> > shorthand for color like we = white edge.
> > Ben J.M.Zonneveld
> > Clusius lab pobox 9505
> > 2300 RA Leiden
> > The Netherlands
> > Zonneveld@RULbim.LeidenUniv.NL
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