Re: HYB: kashmiriana, ploidy and more
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: kashmiriana, ploidy and more
- From: a*@cs.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:17:42 EST
In a message dated 1/3/02 3:56:08 AM Mountain Standard Time,
neilm@charter.net writes:
> Thanks, Sharon, for reminding us of the old-timers' rule of thumb of the
> "One in ten thousand." I had known that at one time and forgotten. My
> "hundreds" of crosses didn't begin to scratch the probabilities, did it?
>
> So how do we incorporate astrachanica, timofejewii and what other jewels
> may emerge out of Russia and Afghanistan in our coming "peace?" Breeding
> with these at the diploid level may be fun, but doesn't introduce the
> potentially useful genetics into modern tetraploid lines. Tens of
> thousands of pollenizations take time, space and more patience than most of
> us have. Bloom's procedures may offer some hope.
In the diploid-to-tetraploid conversion that resulted in our modern TBs, the
triploid route played a very important role. I've used it with arils &
arilbreds, enough to find it quite productive as well as interesting, but can
only speculate what would happen with the "jewels" you mention.
Sharon McAllister
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