Re: AIS: medals
- Subject: Re: AIS: medals
- From: D* E*
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 07:12:35 -0800
From: "Donald Eaves" <donald@eastland.net>
Mike writes:
>
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> Now having answered the above, permit me the luxury of being grumpy: can
> anyone clearly and cogently explain the following puzzlements:
>
> 1. How can you designate something as an interspecies hybrid when
> one of the parents is unknown???
>
> 2. Once upon a time I was led to believe that to qualify as a
> species any such plant so designated should come true from seed. Do any
of
> the above 'species' come true from seed???
>
> 3. Polly Dodge (one parent of ROYAL DOLLY) is at least three
> generations removed from the species Siberian parent: how can the progeny
> from this cross possibly be termed an 'Interspecies Hybrid' ???
>
> 3. Does a cross where the progeny markedly differs from the one
> known parent (GORDONVILLE CREAM) still qualify as a 'species.' ???
>
> 4. How do pseudacorus crosses qualify as 'LAEV' one time and as
> SPEC (species) the next???
>
Valid questions. It would seem AIS could provide the definition of species
they are using as a guideline. Unless there is DNA testing for plants, I
would have to say the answer to question #1 is no. Some of the others
could be maybe, yes or no, depending on how the parameters of definition
has been spelled out. I'm assuming this hasn't been done or Mike would
know. So the obvious question is who decides what is eligible for the
awards
in question?
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7
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