REF: HYB: ploidy

Several years (?) ago, Sharon McAllister sent me a copy of a paper
published in the Botanical Gazette in 1956, "Karyotype analysis of
bearded iris" by Jyotirmay Mitra.

I finally read it.  Heavy going but interesting reading.  The article
compares the physical appearance of chromosomes within species (some
collected at more than one location) and between tetraploid and diploid
within the same species.

The author doesn't go into the appearance of the different species or
speculate how differences in chromosome appearance relates to
differences in appearance of the plant.  He (? I wouldn't even try to
pronounce Jyotirmay & don't know whether that's a woman's name or a
man's) says that will be discussed in a later paper.

I grow a few of the species mentioned, but have no idea if the names of
cultivars/species that I have are the same critters that are described
in the paper, or if more recent taxonomic rearrangements would call them
something else in the paper.

===So here's the question - has anybody published the follow up, trying
to compare the presence/absence of particular chromosomes with physical
characteristics?

Certainly something I can live the rest of my life without knowing, but
I'm curious.

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