Re: HYB: hybridizing for yellow
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- Subject: Re: HYB: hybridizing for yellow
- From: d*@tso.cin.ix.net (Dennis Kramb)
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:32:22 -0500
From: dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net (Dennis Kramb)
>From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
>
>Dennis,
>
>Japanese iris have a similar problem and I understand that hybridizers,
>particularly in Japan are working on getting a yellow iris. John Coble has
>slides of some of the attempts to get more yellow. I don't recall what
>types of crosses they are doing in their attempts.
>
>Bob Hollingworth has been working on siberians and expanding the signal
>colour. I don't know if he is working at all with cultivars with yellow
>signals. I believe he has some seedlings where the signal colour covers
>most of the fall, leaving a rim of colour. There appears to be potential
>for a yellow siberian with a rim of white.
A old IRIS-L'er from Lithuania sent me pictures tonight of some pale yellow
seedlings he's hybridized. They're a ghostly yellow white and quite
lovely! Anyone interested, I'll be happy to forward the jpegs to you.
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, RIS, SIGNA, SLI, & Miami Valley Iris Society
Primary Interests: ABs, REBs, LAs, Native Ohio SPEC and SPEC-X hybrids
(Check out my web page at http://home.fuse.net/dkramb/home.html)
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