Re: HYB: Plicatas, Luminatas & Zonals
- Subject: Re: HYB: Plicatas, Luminatas & Zonals
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:11:17 -0700
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> From: Jan Clark
> Next question - is there a difference in appearance between a 'fancy'
> with say - 1 pl-lu gene and 3 pl, and another cv with 1 pl gene and 3
> pl-lu genes?
I would expect there might well be a dosage effect with your first example
more "plicata-ish" and your second leaning more to the luminata side.
>
> >>what would happen if I crossed a 'zonal' with a luminata.
> >> Has anyone done this?
Can't contribute much here, since I don't understand much about 'zonal'
genetics.
> The problem with zonals and luminatas is compounded by catalogues which
> label irises as one or the other, or neither. (same with glaciatas) I
> have seen CYCLES called a luminata in a catalogue, but would call it a
> zonal myself.
CYCLES' parents are MIDWAY and VICTORIA FALLS. M has quite a bit of plicata
in its ancestry, though its description makes it sound more zonal in
appearance. VF, of course, is a zonal (though the "zone" is quite small)
and doesn't show any plicata in its ancestry that I am aware of. Therefore,
the probability is very strong that CYCLES is a zonal and not a luminata
(the chance it could have inherited a combination of two luminata and/or
glaciata alleles from VF is vanishingly slim).
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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