Re: HYB: tetraploids, Diploids, Triploids etc
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- Subject: Re: HYB: tetraploids, Diploids, Triploids etc
- From: T* T* L* <t*@rt66.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 09:27:49 -0600 (MDT)
>
>Another is that the tangerine factor, which enables pink irises, somehow
seems
>to be expressed only in tetraploids.
>
>Is there yet any indication of why?
I'm not sure it's been demonstrated that the t factor is present in
diploids; it may have been a mutation that originally arose in the
tetraploids. Although it is not outside the realm of possibility that a
tetraploid's four doses of t would have a stronger biochemical effect than
a diploid's two doses, that is a rather unusual way for genes to behave.
Like you, I've read things that imply there are tt diploids without visible
pink in the petals, but I don't know what the actual evidence for that is.
Can anyone provide more info?
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