Re: LUMINATA DEFINED

John Jones writes...
>Marilyn,
>If you send me a copy, [ad hoc committee rpt --Keppel, Nelson and Stahly]
>I'll scan it and make it avaiable electronically
>John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com

>From Mike Lowe.....
Just to get us all up to speed before seeing the latest definition of
'luminata' here is the original:

    Median  Iris  Society's  Genetics Study Panel; Bee Warburton, Chairman;
                  Fred Megson, John Tearington, Jean Witt

        The MOONLIT SEA type pattern, which has been called and miscalled
by a variety of names, has not in the past even been correctly described,
let alone classified.  The Median Iris Section's Genetics Panel, which has
collaborated in preparation of this study, has spent almost three years in
considering its various aspects, both its appearance and its genetic
makeup, and has concluded that none of the definitions offered or in use in
the past accurately describes this pattern.  Therefore, the Panel has
selected from a number of proposed terms for the pattern, one that seemed
best: to describe its appearance; to acknowledge the variety which has most
often been cited as its "type"--MOONLIT SEA; and to consort well with the
name of its companion pattern, PLICATA.  The Panel has adopted the name
"LUMINATA." It will henceforth be used in our communications and in the
reports of our work which we submit for publication, and we hope that it
will find general acceptance.
        The definition of luminata as worked out by the Panel reads,
"Luminata  is a genetically reproducible anthrocyanin pattern having its
color present in an irregular marbling in the central areas of the petals
and absent in the peripheral areas.  The marbling effect is produced by
non-anthrocyanin veining (white or yellow), and there is no anthrocyanin in
the hafts, the stylearms, or the beard." It is the pale, or "lighted"
effect at the heart of the luminata variety that gives the name its
validity.  It is a pattern quite distinct from one which has the marbling
overlaid with the etching or dotting of the plicata pattern, a combination
type from which it has not been adequately distinguished in terminology,
color classification, or genetic analysis.
        The various terms which have been in use or have been proposed are
all either vague and confused, or are based upon what we consider to be
misconceptions.  Those we have evaluated, in the order in which they were
suggested, are 1) picotee; 2) fancy, or fancy-plicata; 3) weirdie; 4)
MOONLIT SEA type plicata; and 5) Havelberg pattern.

The article continues for another five pages. The above extract defines
'luminata' as it was used for two decades.

Cheers,

Mike Lowe, mikelowe@tricities.net Virginia, USA
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