Re: HYB: Whole Cloth inhibitor

Thanks, Neil, for the interesting details about the WHOLE CLOTH story.
Now that I know the uproar this iris caused, another Cook name,
MELODRAMA, also has new meaning!

Sounds like Cook knew which plant the inhibitor came from, just couldn't
figure out how it was possible or where the ancestor actually came from
genetically.  Looking at the article on chromosome comparisons among all
the bearded species, it sounds like they all have mixed around with one
another in the wild to some extent.

Thanks, Fred, for the info about Blyth inhibitors.  Has he written about
this?  Do you know which lines are 'free' of the PROGENITOR gene?

I'm not going to live long enough to understand all of this, but more
bits and pieces stick everytime we go over it.  Still a big blank on the
subject of inhibitors of plastid (pink/yellow/orange) pigments.

<In addition to the Whole Cloth inhibitors there seems to be an
inhibitor in
                   some of the Blyth lines which do not involve the
Progenitor gene. These
                   apparently were derived from Sunset Snows through
some infrequent segregates which
                   are white/blue bicolors. Barry has taken some pains
to keep this line free of
                   the Progenitor gene.  Fred Kerr Rainbow Acres>

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