Re: HYB: Zonals and Other Patterns


From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>

Jan,

From my readings, I recall that luminatas and glaciatas come from plicata
breeding and the current thinking is that they are recessive traits on the
plicata gene.  I think there was article on this in an AIS bulletin.

Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4)


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> From: 	Jan Clark[SMTP:janclarx@hotmail.com]
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> Subject: 	[iris-talk] Re: HYB: Zonals and Other Patterns
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> From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
> 
> Does a cv have to have plicata ancestry to come up with luminata's (or 
> for that matter Glaciatas) in it's offspring? I thought the answer to 
> this would be no, as the luminata is a different expression of the 
> plicata gene. Surely a cv could carry pl-lu genes without having any pl 
> genes in its ancestry. Is there something wrong with this thinking? That 
> is why I asked what would happen if I crossed a 'zonal' with a luminata. 
> Has anyone done this? 
> Walter? Bill? Sharon? ..........is there anyone out there?  :-))
> 
> Searching for enlightenment - Jan Clark, in Australia
> 
> 
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