Re: Re: HYB: backcrosses, etc...
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: backcrosses, etc...
- From: d*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:40:39 EDT
In a message dated 10/17/02 1:26:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
s_j_mahlberg@yahoo.com writes:
> , I. pallida? since that one is the ancestor of many of the older iris I've
> searched pedigrees on? I. variegata? florentine? mesopotamieae?
Steve, I just wonder how many seedlings you are going to be able to grow.
Some of those you mentioned are diploids and some are tetraploids. You may
have to grow thousands of seedling to come up with any fertile hybrids. Most
of them will be sterile triploids. Of course, this is how many ancestors of
the modern irises came into being, but it is a long shot.
Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio
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