Re: HYB: If you could ignore hybridizing barriers...(question)

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• Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: If you could ignore hybridizing barriers...(question)
• From: Linda Mann l*@volfirst.net
• Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:55:08 -0500
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Three things -
1) fragrance of I. germanica or pallida in Louisianas (sweetly fragrant
LAs)
2) habitat tolerance of Louisianas in modern tall bearded (wetland
tolerant TBs)
3) habitat tolerance of I. cristata in modern tall bearded (full shade
tolerant TBs)

I think (3) is possible with the genetic material already present in
TBs, at least in the hotter parts of irisdom.  Some already do better in
part shade than full sun.  Might be interesting to see how much soggy
soil the gene pool can tolerate.

<If you
                   could magically transfer a trait [maybe genetically
                   engineer] from one kind of iris to another, what
would
                                               you choose to transfer? >

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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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