Re: hybridizing
- Subject: Re: hybridizing
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 18:28:45 MST
>Linda, Both daylilies & irises are moncots. I think what you may be
>remembering is that angiosperms are different from gymnosperms.
sue - i sure hope nobody who knows i should know better heard me say that!
duh. no, it was some difference, maybe in grasses and other monocots? which
still leaves it irrelevant for iris. or daylilies for that matter.
something about corn and seed development...
steve - maybe what i am trying to dredge from my memory has to do with stuff
outside the zygote. hence also irrelevant, except maybe for vigor of
individual offspring?? ahh memory is a wonderful thing. was anyway.
<I have seen non-genetic maternal effect go on beyond the life of the
<seedling, however. I remember one bad lot of a very good hybrid which
<never recovered from the effects of the poorly produced seed.
Iris or daylily?
linda mann e. tn.
