Re: naming irises

 

That sort of evenly heterozygous F1 hybrid seed is common in vegetables as well. Frustrating since you can't propagate it yourself without access to the parents, which will be linebred strains that come true from seed.

Strains of ornamental fish are often outcrossed to unrelated lines and then recreated, in order to prevent inbreeding depression. Dogs on the other hand cannot be registered as purebred (at least in the US) if their line has ever been outcrossed, even if they're visually indistinguishable.

I had also never heard that F2s were supposed to be the result of selfing. Filial generation numbering is commonly used in animal breeding (laboratory mice, for example), where that couldn't apply.

Sean Z

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:04 AM, 'Robert Pries ' r*@embarqmail.com [iris-species] <i*@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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Jamie just gave a great summation but I would add one thing about seed strains. They are not always line-breeding. It is my understanding that in Petunias for example outcrossing is used regularly to produce a consistent strain. The two parents may be very different and not closely related but in some cases their crossing produces about a 99% consistent result which by the way may be very different from either parent but constitutes the strain (cultivar).

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It is the difference between a seed line and a perennial. A perennial
is a 'one off' situation. Seed-line are a family with genetic
traits that are very similar, but still individual variations between
plants.

Along those lines, F2 is technically a self cross, not a cross of
siblings.

Chuck Chapman


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Help me on a technical point. The lecturing professor's assertion is
certainly one of those huh? moments that always come up in a good
discussion of cultivar. I have to assume the man is exquisitely
correct. Registering a cultivar with the AIS appears to the encouraged
protocol for introducing one's iris to the community. If one wants the
cultivar to remain genetically synonymous with a certain clone, how
might one go about this? For discussion's sake, how could it be done
strictly within the current protocol? If we need to discuss changes of
protocol, do that after exhausting the "no changes" options.








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Bob Pries
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