Re: HYB: Polyploidy, unreduced gametes and such
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Polyploidy, unreduced gametes and such
- From: a*@cs.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 14:20:49 EST
In a message dated 1/1/02 4:50:18 AM Mountain Standard Time,
neilm@charter.net writes:
> As to depending on stumbling across unreduced gametes for tetraploid
> production, I might comment that I made hundreds of crosses of diploid X
> tetraploid beardeds fishing for such and never got a single seed. My
> experience is that this is not a real swift method of development.
The old-timers had a one-in-ten-thousand rule of thumb, and nothing in my
experience would serve to refute it.
Sharon McAllister
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