Re: HYB: Sport--a correction

My post on Sports needs a few small corrections.  Near the bottom I said:

"In short, a SPORT is a non-sexual vegetative scion of an existing plant that
is different than the parent and both breeds and increases true to type, the
difference being as stable as any other iris is."

To be accurate the phrase "both breeds and"  should be deleted.  A mutation or
sport involving a locus *outside* the nucleus will not breed true.  Such
sports do occur and, in fact, are quite common in some other genera.
"...different than...." should read "different from" also.  The concept of
"sport" applies to any genera of vascular plants, not iris alone, thus the
statement should read:

"In short, a SPORT is a non-sexual vegetative scion of an existing plant that
is different from the parent and  increases true to type, the difference being
as stable as any other plant of the type is."

Please accept the corrections.

Neil Mogensen  z 7  western NC

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