HYB: colors
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- Subject: HYB: colors
- From: "* M* <I*@msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:37:13 -0600 (MDT)
Tom TL was writing about color inheritance:
"I'm a little skeptical of the other case. White (the old recessive white
gene) can crop up when crossing two irises that have purple color, but it
is not too common. Perhaps the other parent was something else? White? pink?
"
I've found in my smallish pool of seedlings that purple crossed with yellow
frequently results in white. I think that recessive white is probably more
common than we think it is... I'm talking really wide crosses here, for
instance IBs crossed with TBs. Crossing those back to a yellow gives me tons
of those ubiquitous yellow IBs and SDBs, which is what you'd expect, but I had
to learn that myself (boring!).
Barb in beautiful downtown Eldorado, where we'd better get some rain soon!
