Re: tetraploid
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- Subject: Re: tetraploid
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:04:06 -0600
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> From: Mike Lowe
> LADY EMMA is out of a conventional cross IB (48 chr. tall X I. pumila
> Schecht) crossed with pollen from a 48 chr. Border Bearded from entirely
48
> chr. stock. Check List typos have clouded the L.E. picture as has her
> tendency (sometimes) to bloom more as an IB rather than an MTB.
Mike,
Perhaps I am misinterpreting what you wrote, but isn't (48 chr. tall X I.
pumila) the classic cross to produce an SDB (rather than an IB) and the
conventional cross for an IB (SDB X 48 chr. tall or BB), which therefore
makes LADY EMMA (and not her pod parent) a conventional IB by ancestry?
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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