Re: HYB: Pod parents (care and feeding)

 Also, crop plants have been selected <primarily> for yield (roots,
grain, and/or stalks).  Irises have been selected <primarily> for
appearance of flowers, rather than healthy foliage or seed and pod
production.  The most successful commercial varieties also have the
<capacity> to grow fast, but are not necessarily selected to resist
disease.

I think we've all heard hybridizers say they aren't growing their irises
for the foliage. <g>

<Iris breeders have selected somewhat for such response to improved
growing conditions.  Yet comparing old varieties growing in old
cemetaries with newer varieties growing in the best gardens, does not
show a comparible improvement.  I attribute this relative lack of
progress to iris breeders not having had hundreds of thousands of
breeders with billions of dollors over the last century. ...Walter>

--
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
East Tennessee Iris Society <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
talk archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
photos archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>
online R&I <http://www.irisregister.com>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE IRIS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index