Re: HYB:Diploid Irises with Arils and Arilbreds
- To: i*@egroups.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB:Diploid Irises with Arils and Arilbreds
- From: l*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:44:24 EST
In a message dated 1/23/01 2:44:25 PM Mountain Standard Time,
christyh@povn.com writes:
> Steve,
> My personal feeling is that diploids of every species simply haven't been
> used enough to know for certain what new forms may be lurking undiscovered
> in the gene pools. It seems from the registrations of most irises, very few
> parents are at the root of most modern hybrids.
>
> Rather than taking the road most traveled, you just might find something
> the early hybridizers missed.
>
>
The modern diploid MTBs could provide interesting parents for halfbreds too.
Lowell
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