Re: Re: HYB: inheritance of LIGHT rims?

Way cool - thanks a bunch Dave & Neil.

I am in this for the long haul, so am happy to get information whenever,
speculation better than nothing.  But it would be nice to know before
the upcoming hybridizing season how these rims are inherited.  I think
you've given me the answer tho:  If the WABASH pattern really is the
same as variegata without the yellow, I guess it is recessive (in
contrast to the famous PROGENITOR descendant, the dominant amoena, WHOLE
CLOTH, which does not have light rims).

I guess that means it takes 4 doses of the recessive pattern for light
rims to be present.

Or does the 'recessiveness' apply only to the standards (i.e, the amoena
part of the pattern)?

The next (rhetorical?) question is - are these seeds going to be as
difficult to germinate as the WABASH descendants?  Will it take 2 yrs
(as did STARRING)?  Or has Barry Blyth selected over enough generations
to get rid of that characteristic?  He sure gets fast turnaround in
pedigrees - many generations in each decade.

Hmm... the cross of BEHOLD A LADY germinated very few seeds the first
year, abundant  the second.

Neil's comments about other pigments & other species may drive me back
to trying to wade thru Vallette's discussion of the subject.  My brain
cells are no longer elastic enough for this to be easy!

Neil - I'm looking forward to your getting home sooner than expected,
and back on your feet in the garden to watch those seedlings grow.

Dave said:
<So, the basic pattern and coloring of Iris such as 'Wabash' could (???)

come largely from I. variegata.  However, I've never researched the
ancestory of 'Wabash' nor much of anything that is tetraploid; I have
assumed that Wabash owes a lot of it's coloration to I. variegata, as it

looks very much like some of the diploid amoenas and variegatas, but
somebody else will know the true answer better than I.>

And Neil M said:
<If it has the variegata/Wabash type of overlay with the back side of
the petal the color of the standards, we are looking at the variegata
fall pattern, however
expressed.>
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