Re: Debbie Rairdon


--- In iris-talk@egroups.com, arilbredbreeder@c... wrote:
> In a message dated 12/31/00 10:10:16 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
> rainacre@a... writes:
> 
> << 
>  Will someone hazard a guess how two pinks can turn up a yellow?  It 
would 
>  appear that the speculated parentage is incorrect. >>
> 
> Pink is recessive to a specific yellow, not to all of them.  If a 
dominant 
> inhibitor eliminated one or more of the "other yellows" and the 
required four 
> doses of the t-factor were accumulated, that would explain the pink 
> appearance of the parents.  But a dominant inhibitor is effective in 
a single 
> dose, so that one of the "other yellows" could reappear in the next 
> generation.
> 
> Sharon McAllister

A good thought. When I look at photos of DR it would apear to be a 
pale yellow, and could also have the Recessive reduced Carotine genes, 
thus the yellow could be flavenoid based? Walter thought that it was a 
bee pod, in which case selective recall or a bee visiting more then 
one flower could account for it.


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