Re: HYB: Would IB's sometimes produce diploid pollen
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Would IB's sometimes produce diploid pollen
- From: Gerry Snyder g*@attbi.com
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:27:21 -0700
tesilvers wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of any IB's (especially pink ones) being used as
> pollen parent on diploids?? I thought that maybe because of their
> unbalanced complement of chromosomes, IB's might occassionally
> produce diploid (or near diploid) pollen grains. Thinking that this
> might be one way of transferring tangerine beard and pink color to
> the diploid MTB bunch.
Definitely seems worth a try.
But I do remember reading an article "written by great experts, for the
edification of other great experts" to the effect that tangerine/pink is
not possible in diploids, and somehow requires tetraploidy to be
expressed.
Good luck in proving them wrong.
Gerry, feeling the need to attribute the quotation above to Anna Russell
in her summary of Wagner's Ring Cycle
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g*@attbi.com
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair and Director, lame duck Region 15 RVP
in warm, winterless Los Angeles--zone 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19
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