Re: Re: HYB: spots (was another terminology question)
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  • Subject: Re: Re: HYB: spots (was another terminology question)
  • From: L* M* <l*@lock-net.com>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:43:14 -0500
Thanks for the details, Chuck.
The impression I got from that old article is that all the modern bearded irises are "closely" related (including the ones with different base n numbers of chromosomes) such that there can be enough of the kind of pairing you describe to get viable embryos occasionally. Not often, but not never.
It's not like crossing horses and donkeys, although even with equines, there have apparently been two examples of crossovers there as well, where a mule produced not a mule, donkey, or horse offspring, but a genetically mixed offspring.
I can tell it's winter and we are all impatient for spring, to be having these esoteric, theoretical discussions. 

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