Re: HYB: stalk inheritance
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  • Subject: Re: HYB: stalk inheritance
  • From: C* C* <d*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:18:58 -0400
The maternal inheritance of plastid and mitochondria genetics basically involves the plants energy systems of chlorophyll and ATP production. But control of these rests with nuclear DNA for most part. So how well the potential of maternal inheritance is able to perform is partially dependent on proper control signals from nucleus. Sort of like you can have a super winning race car, but you also need a good driver to get performance.
There is also methylation and gene silencing of either maternal silencing or paternal silencing, controlling which parent gene works.
So anything dependent on chlorophyll or energy production will be biased to pod parent. This can have more of an influence on plant hardiness, speed of growth and flower stalk thickness etc. 

Chuck Chapman


-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <101l@rewrite.hort.net>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sun, Oct 19, 2014 5:02 pm
Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: stalk inheritance

Thanks Chuck.  I was hoping that wasn't going to be the case.

In your experience (or what you've heard from others), does maternal
influence skew the distribution towards that of the pod parent?
The one experimental cross I made years ago used the short, stocky plant with high bud count as pod parent, & none of the babies had skinny bendy 
stalks.  Or at least that's how I remember it ;-)  That made me think
that maybe pod and pod parents might have greater influence than the
pollen side.  Sample of one ;-)

Linda Mann east TN zone 7

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