Re: Crossing Species

 

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If you're talking about fertile hybrids, I don't find his results at all unusual.
Is there any information about whether this line was carried past the F2s?
 
Christy
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Iris lactea has not been tried with many other species in hybridizing. But Charles Jenkins who was geneticist and hybridizer of spuria irises tried it with the spurias. He got very strange results and if it would be anyone but him, few would have believed it, The first generation he got plants that looked no different than the lactea he used. But Charles did an F2 and to his surprise resulted in many of the seedlings being twins out of the same seed. Each twin produced one plant that looked like the lactea and one that looked like the spuria. Charles was a very meticulous scientist and I believe his results but they are certainly remarkable.

 
 

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