Re: HYB: Seed Developement
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Seed Developement
- From: c*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:38:40 EDT
In a message dated 7/4/01 9:38:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
wmoores@watervalley.net writes:
> I have planted many bea pods and have not seen much variation in
> the seedlings. For each individual grain of pollen to produce each
> seed, you'd have reds, whites, blues, plicatas, selfs, reverse bi-
> colors, etc. in the seedlings from a bee pod. I have not seen that.
> My experience does not bear this out.
>
> Walter Moores
Some thoughts on this and other statements made in this thread.Dry pollen
would have great difficulty remaining on the bees back during flight.Damp
pollen might last long enough. Masticated pollen would require that the leg
rub up against the stigmatic lip. That might have a better chance from our
smaller Orchard Mason bees. Having watched the bumblebees work their way in
and out and around a blossom I would suspect that the majority of bee pods
would be selfed. Walters experience would seem to support the "selfing
theory".
Each grain of pollen contains enough "sperm" to fertilize hundreds of
individual seeds
Michael
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