RE: HYB: Tetraploid Calsibes
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- Subject: RE: HYB: Tetraploid Calsibes
- From: M*@fin.gc.ca (Mark, Maureen)
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:03:44 -0600 (MDT)
Yes, there is a whole new line of irises. I'm afraid that I don't remember=
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everyone who is working on them but there are a number of catalogues that =
list a few. Dave Niswonger has a beautiful one on the cover of his =
catalogue. If no one else on the list is working on these, he can put you =
in touch with the others who are working on this new line.
Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Canada
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From: Donald Mosser
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: HYB: Tetraploid Calsibes
Date: Friday, August 8, 1997 9:48
I just finished reading an article in the July 1985 AIS Bulletin (Number
258) concerning the conversion of Calsibes (Califonicae x Sibericae - 40
chromosome) to tetraploidy by Tomas Tamberg of Germany. Mr. Tamberg
indicates in his article that he has produced fertile tetraploid Calsibes
which have been successfully crossed back with tetraploid siberians to
produce 3/4 Chrysographes + 1/4 Californicae hybrids at this tetraploid
level. Does anyone have an update on what this line of hybridizing has
produced and how fertile the results have been? Do we now have a whole new
group of irises which to appreciate?
This topic came up in May of 1996 on the iris-L and Dave Silverberg
mentioned that Laurie Reid of Springfield, Oregon was producing some
fantastic things with these fertile Calsibes. (Is she related to Lorena
Reid?) Other than this, I didn't find much in the iris-L archives.
This is what reading old AIS bulletins leads to - lots of questions!:)
-Donald (-trying to help the list improve its On Topic ratio for this mont=
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:)
Donald Mosser
Member of AIS, HIPS, SIGNA, SSI, SLI, SPCNI, and IRIS-L
dmosser@southconn.com
http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/5570
North Augusta, South Carolina, USA
On the South Carolina and Georgia Border
USDA Zone 7b-8
