Re: HYB: Abbey Road pigments (was on photos)

Chuck, based on the ancestry of Abbey Road, the idea that this is most
likely a carotenoid is suggested by the pigment distribution in the pod
parent, GANGES MOON.  It is a cream colored "Joyce Terry" pattern.  The
falls are described as white with a 1" border band of the color of the
standards.

This heritage shows in Abbey Road to a degree, as there is a lighter area
around the beard.

The white fall banded yellow (or cream, ivory, pink or apricot) is a pattern
frequently encountered, and, as noted, appears in both yellow and "t"
bearded sorts.  I don't recall any yellow glaciatas that have the pattern
(I'm sure they probably exist), but I know it is encountered in derivitives
of brown breeding, and is especially prevalent in those having tangerine
bearded ancestries.  I looked only at a couple of generations of the family
tree of ABBEY ROAD and had not yet run into any.  The color-tone of the
variety sure does suggest pink, however.

I would hazard a suggestion that this is a main-line Carotene or mix of
alpha- and beta- Carotene.  The odd results are likely the effect of the
water-alcohol mix that constitutes "alcohol" normally as purchased in
drugstores.  The solution has the ability to allow water and paraffin series
compounds to mix.

That's why we can on occasion put a bottle of rubbing alcohol into the gas
tank if a little water has condensed in the tank. The gasoline and water go
into the solution mediated by the alcohol molecules.

Carotenoids in a water-isopropyl alcohol-oil mix might first mix in the
three-way solution, but when heated to evaporate out the alcohol the
location would change.  Surely the carotenoid fraction would separate from
any flavonoids by ending up in the oil only.  The flavonoids would be in the
water layer.  Just where the xanthophylls end up I'm not sure.  Are they not
carotenoid-derived?

Neil Mogensen

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