Re: HYB:REB:Daylight Dependent & Independent

I have a few more to add to the daylight independent list:
   
  Days of Summer
  Patty Ann
  Cornhusker
  July Yellow
  Pagan Dance
   
  I really wonder if there aren't at least three different loci in play.   Maybe (1) rapid increase, (2) temperature triggered bloom (possibly an omission of the dominant allele which would limit bloom to the time when the plant is most likely to able to produce viable seed) and (3)the daylight independent (rhizome maturity) triggered rebloom are all present in something like Immortality.  If the gene for rapid increase were absent it could explain the instances of the daylight independent rebloom on slow growers.  
   
  It certainly seems significant that rebloomer x rebloomer crosses produce some, but not all that many rebloomers.  It's possible that if a seedling had the proper alleles to express rebloom at 2 or 3 of the necessary loci that the presence of a completely unrelated gene at a fourth loci may be canceling out the effects of all of the others.
   
  There are days when it sounds tempting to go to graduate school just to get access to a good genetics lab.  I think mapping the rebloom trait would make for a fine doctoral project :  )  
   
  Robin Shadlow
  zone 5 NE
   
  the GRE can't be that hard....
   
   
   
   

 
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