Re: New project

--- In iris-talk@y..., Martin Weber <martweb@g...> wrote:
"...Wasn't it an Iris reichenbachii?"

If you are asking about the parentage ("Mellita Vandee") of MELAMOENA 
and the selective inhibitor showing in Melamoena suggesting 
*reichenbachii* as the parent rather than a clone of *mellita*--then 
I might add the comment--

Species identity in bearded iris, especially among seeds passed on by 
donors is often questionable.  Paul Cook himself suggested that his 
*reichenbachii* used in generating the hybrid PROGENITOR may not have 
been pure species *reichenbachii.*  Goett may also not have been 
alone in getting bicolors from *mellita* clones.  I have a vague but 
unsubstantiated memory of other bicolors reported around 1960 from 
the use of *mellita* in crosses.  The question of identity may be 
oriented the other way--perhaps the *reichenbachii* was from 
*mellita* at least in part.  At one time there was considerable 
speculation that *mellita* (or some clones of it) was the source of 
sI, not *reichenbachii*.  Additionally, I don't believe I have ever 
heard of another Progenitor-type bicolor coming from use of 
*reichenbachii.*

The point is moot in any event.  We have the Progenitor-derived 
bicolors as a radically new genetic dimension in TB breeding from 
just exactly the kind of species inclusion you propose.  Others are 
thinking along this line also, and with the availability of asiatic 
bearded species previously unused in TB development increasing we may 
see more interesting departures.

Jean Peyrard has a hybrid of *variegata* with *timofejewii* which is 
in circulation in the U. S., for example.  Who knows what may come 
from it?

Neil Mogensen   z 6b/7a near Asheville, NC


 

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