Control genes are of many forms. Turning off and on is usually in
control of promoter genes.

Flavanoid is not an either/or situation with antrocyanin. But
reduction of antrocyanin can leaf more precursors to be available for
flavanoid chain reaction.

Ae inclusions are inside vaculole.

Chuck Chapman

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: iris-photos <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Nov 25, 2013 10:52 am
Subject: [iris-photos] RE: HYB: seedling pigment?

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Thanks Chuck.
> Carotene yellows are oil soluble. Flavanoid yellows are water
soluble.
> Chuck Chapman

I dug around in the archives and found this (from you, Chuck).

<The water soluble yellow is a flavanoid. While anthocyanin and
flavanoid share some of the initial biochemistry chain they
differentiate quite early in the chain>

So does that mean that it has flavanoids in the vacuoles instead of
anthocyanin? Can't have both?

How in the world does a plant 'know' to use precursors to make one
pigment in the vacuole, but go a different direction in the Ae
inclusions? very smart plants!

Linda Mann