HYB: pigment question - red beards?
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  • Subject: HYB: pigment question - red beards?
  • From: L* M* <l*@lock-net.com>
  • Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 08:45:43 -0400
A question from a local iris breeder working on red-bearded white irises. He says he crosses the reddest bearded whites (or whatever) with the reddest beards he can use, and is frustrated that most of the seedlings have beards that are less red, more orange than the parents.
I wondered if maybe the true red beards have some blue or other pigment mixed in, whether maybe some other color beard crossed with red would give a higher percentage of true red beards.
Any of you know the trick to getting/keeping the 'true' red beards? Or know anybody who would know?
Seems like, if it was 'just' fully recessive, crossing two red beards would give mostly red beards. 

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