Re: HYB: Diploid - Tetraploid
- Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: Diploid - Tetraploid
- From: "Jim Gibbons" g*@mchsi.com
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:02:47 -0400
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
Juri and Dave,
Thanks for your answers and solutions regarding the 24-48 aphylla question.
Most helpful.
Jim Gibbons
NC Coast Zone 8A and sandy...
gibbman6@mchsi.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juri Pirogov" <juri@cross.com.ru>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: Diploid - Tetraploid
> Jim,
> I don't know any diploid form of regular aphylla that originates from
> Central or East Europe. But those plants that originate from Caucasus are
> diploid. Sometimes those plants are described as Iris aphylla sometimes as
> Iris furcata. European and Caucasian plants are hardly distinguishable
> except stem of last ones never branch out at base.
>
> Juri Pirogov
> in Moscow, Russia
>
> >
> > Here's my question: in the Species Checklist, (most current from our
SIGNA
> > folks) i. aphylla is noted as both having both diploid (2n=24) and
> > tetraploid (2n=48) forms. Does anyone know of the diploid form? I'm
> assuming
> > that the aphylla clones I am collecting are tets, as I'm trying to play
> > around with MTBs, but am also working the diploid lines. Don't want to
> waste
> > a bunch of pollen with a mismatch if I have some dips and tets in the
> > aphylla patch, which is growing...
> >
> > Jim Gibbons
> > NC Coast Zone 8A and sandy...
>
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