from green to blue
- Subject: from green to blue
- From: z*
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 10:24:01 +0200
Hi Charles
Here some info on your question A plain green wild plant will rarely
sport to blue, Why? because if it does it will be a sport due to a
mutation ie a change in DNA A sport due to a muation is as I
argued earlier a very rare occasion. I dont think there are any
examples ( or is tokudama originally?). A better chance is when
you have a ( nearly) green plant for a blue x green cross In that
case you can get a blue sport due to a mitotic recombination a
more frequent occurence. The cases reported seem to be the
following. Halcyon is a green x blue cross. A mit rec in its outer
layer only , resulted in a green sport. However the second layer is
still blue so tc or a sport due to chimeric rearangment can bring out
the blue again in these ""green"" sports like Devon Green!
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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