Re: HYB: Flower of the Rainbow
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- Subject: Re: HYB: Flower of the Rainbow
- From: J* C*
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:05:12 PST
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
Sharon wrote:
>True, the pigment for spectrum red has been rarely found in iris and >I
know of no case where it's been identified in a TB. Lycopene, the
>pigment responsible for tangerine pinks, is one of the carotenes.
>That makes it convenient to think of its limit as tomato red. We can
>get beards and signals that appear quite "red" because the pigment >has
greater concentration in those areas. Getting "red" standards >and
falls is another matter.
My understanding from Kohlein, was that we are only a small mutation
away from a red iris. It's only a matter of pigment molecules adding an
extra -CHCOOH, (or is that a COOCOOCaCHOOH?) somewhere. It's a long time
since I did organic chemistry, but I think that on this basis, we should
all sit around and watch our irises mutate for a bit.
Jan Clark (very tongue in cheek)
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