Re: Reblooming diploid TB's or MTB's
- Subject: Re: Reblooming diploid TB's or MTB's
- From: m*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:06:55 EDT
In a message dated 7/6/2002 12:33:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
iris-talk@yahoogroups.com writes:
> Reblooming diploid TB's or MTB's
I celebrate your breeding strategy. There are lots of folk on this
board who know far more about Iris than I do, but I do believe I know some
basic genetics.
It is a fallacy to bread the new heroes only with the new heroes. They
only have a different throw of the genetic dice than some of the old
cultivars. They may have incorporated a mutant which has given some good
potential.
However, the only specie Iris and the old diploids may also have
developed a mutant which will make an important cultural contribution to
iris, just for a possible example a true red. (Would we want it or would we
drive her out of town?)
There is an infinite set of possibilities in all the potential genetic
combinations. Breeding for vigor is surely one of them. Go for it...
James Harrison
Asheville, NC
Where the weather is wonderful but the fundamentalists waste their time
denouncing the theory of evolution in the newspaper. Do they do that
everywhere? Does the editor of your paper publish such? Or do they reject it
and you assume that no one in your area is so blind to empirical observation.
Our newspaper seeks for a balance between fantasy and reality.
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