Re: Breeding pinks
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Breeding pinks
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- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 05:43:21 +1000
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It's difficult to get a pinks withoutout tangerine beards. Both are caused
by the expression of a substance called lycopene (which is what makes
tomatoes red). It's just that in the petals it is over cells that reflect
all light (white) thus reducing the tomato colour to pink. To get a
different colour you need to either have blue genes that are expressed more
strongly in the beards than in petals and so overide the pink beards. This
gives a pink with a bluish cast (Blue Chip Pink) or else get a white (very
pale pink beard) which is difficult with rich pink petals.
Good Luck
Colleen Modra
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From: <patriciabrooks@coupeville.net>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 5:06 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Breeding pinks
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> I just joined the iris-talk group and told someone in a reply what my
> hybridizing objective was; but since I don't see anything with my
> name on it in the list of messages, I'll try this way. If it's a
> repetition for any, please excuse.
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> Nearly all the "good pinks" I've been able to find have those (to me)
> awful clashing tangerine/orange beards. I want to make crosses that
> may override that gene. My instinct (having found very little in
> print on the subject) had been to cross with TBs that have
> no "tangerine factor." So far, I've only learned of one
> ("Silverado") and am told that crosses between pinks and blues just
> get chalky whites.
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> Other crosses I intend to try are with whites with white beards and
> red/maroon with self beards.
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> Can anyone give me any suggestions/knowledge that will help in this
> endeavor? I'm in the most perfect gardening climate I've been able
> to find (partly why I'm here) on Whidbey Island, off Washington State.
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