Re: Re: VERY RED
- Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: VERY RED
- From: ROBERT PRIES p*@prodigy.net
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:15:06 -0700 (PDT)
It is my understanding that what you have outlined is
already being worked on so maybe wel will see results
in the next couple of years.
--- nmogens <neilm@charter.net> wrote:
> --- In iris-photos@yahoogroups.com, Pat Mitchell
> <corgilover@w...>
> wrote:
> "I thought there was no "true red" iris....I'm still
> on the trail of
> a true red - not a brown/red."
>
> Aren't we all! I'd love to see a true red iris.
> There's a simple
> way to get one---just use DNA transfer techniques of
> those segments--
> or that segment--of the chromosome(s) involved in
> producing the true
> red color in some other irid--gladiolus, montbrecia
> and such. Then
> introduce those segments into a diploid TB, imbreed
> for the true red
> color to show without the violet of current
> beardeds, then double the
> chromosomes.
>
> Of course, then one would have to go to work
> breeding for form,
> substance, branching, growability, smoothness and
> clarity of color,
> and that indefinable quality "charm." Shouldn't
> take more than fifty
> years and a million dollars or so. Simple.
>
> The only problem is, which chromosome(s)are those
> DNA segments on?
> And would it matter where you tucked the
> transplanted sections in the
> bearded iris? I'm assuming the iris and the irid
> would have similar
> sequences in similar chromosome sections for
> producing anthocyanin
> colors. But then, again, maybe not. Might even be
> two or three
> other problems to work around.
>
> The remarkable thing about what I'm describing
> is--that it IS
> possible. I suspect, however, that a few other
> projects would take
> priority--such as those for third world nutrition,
> inheritable
> diseases in humans and our livestock and eliminating
> genetic
> susceptibility to some common but devastating
> illnesses.
>
> In the meantime I suppose we can enjoy DYNAMITE and
> PLAY WITH FIRE
> for what they already are--sorta red, but red enough
> to enjoy--and
> remarkably good garden subjects.
>
> I'm not trying to make fun or be critical. I really
> would like to
> see the true red happen. So would a lot of other
> people. There is a
> certain frustration in knowing it could be done--and
> very probably
> won't be.
>
> Neil Mogensen z 6b/7a near
> Asheville/Hendersonville, NC
>
>
>
>
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