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Re: Re: Chromosome Count

 

Morning Jamie and all.
 
Yes, I'd sure agree about nothing carved in stone.  All these years, I've let Mother Nature do the crossing and have some nice seedlings from that.
 
It was while I was both updating the Iris Encyclopedia and reading about all the species on the SIGNA site, that my curiosity about certain crosses needed to be whetted, more than just by my high school genetics.  And I didn't want to madly dash about the garden, like a pollen soaked bee, although on days when my iris garden is in peak mode with over 250 different cultivars blooming, I do exactly that.  Smile emoticon
 
El

From: j*@freenet.de
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 3:33 AM
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Re: Chromosome Count

El,

I find it is generally worth trying just about any cross that seems interesting.  Mother nature doesn't have her rules set in stone!  There are always exceptions, such as we have recently seen between pseudacorus and ensata. The clone Gubejin is aneuploid (not having the typical chromosome count for the species), which has allowed it to be much more fertile with ensata than expected.  Also, weather and hour can play a big role in fertility.  I suspect even solar weather has an effect on gametes anomolies.

and just when I was finding the 'sorted soxs' analogy so cool.
-- 
Jamie V.

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Am 03.01.2011 05:01, schrieb Eleanor Hutchison:
Thanks Tom and Sean, and everyone else too!
 
It is starting to make sense.  I just didn't want to try crossing something that just should never be crossed, and wonder what the heck went wrong.
 
Oh, and Tom - now that I'm retired, I only buy the same boring white gym socks, so no more sorting.  Smile emoticon
 
El















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