Re: hybridizing
- Subject: Re: hybridizing
- From: j*@redrose.net
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 19:36:21 MST
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 18:28:45 MST
> Reply-to: iris-l@Rt66.com
> From: LMann76543@aol.com
> To: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@Rt66.com>
> Subject: Re: hybridizing
> >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?
> Corn, the hybrid "Dea", sold by Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.
>
> linda mann e. tn.
>
>
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