Re: REF: color patterns for dummies

--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@i...> wrote:
" Is DOMINION a variegata with blue/purple pigments instead of 
pink/yellow?"

I believe, judging by how Dominion bred, that it was yellow AND blue, 
AND had the amoena/variegata fall pattern(amoena and variegata the 
same genetically, the difference being the yellow ground)  
A "neglecta" was an amoena with blue or violet pigment in the overall 
flower, and if you had blue, yellow and the overlay all at the same 
time you would have what we saw in Dominion, Mexico, and many others, 
the color variations partly due to dosage levels, partly due to a lot 
of co-factors.  Sometimes they were called bicolor blends.  Or 
whatever the poetic inclination of the introducer chose to call them.

Linda continues:"...As for BROAD SHOULDERS, it doesn't seem to have 
the light rim...."

I believe, since Broad Shoulders comes from Romantic Evening, that 
the Progenitor-derived "sI" (I think this is what the usual 
designation is) may be responsible for part of the contrast between 
stds and falls, rather than the banded-spot fall.  Romantic Evening 
is loaded with interesting genetics it appears, with a lot of bicolor 
and bi-tone consequences. Its ancestry is Melodrama over and over, 
mixed in with Blyth and Stevens yellow and pink amoenas, also 
multiply repeated.  The Progenitor factor may well be present.  One 
might even have to go a couple generations to get selfs from it.

Neil Mogensen


 

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