Re: HYB: Paltec
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Paltec
- From: D* K*
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:59:15 -0400
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>Message text written by Dennis Kramb:
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>Is Paltec totally sterile? Is it diploid? I just received a piece of it
>and started wondering if I could use it in my hybridizing efforts.
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>The easy question first: PALTEC is a 26-chromosome diploid.
Thanks, Sharon, your message was a goldmine as usual! I kindof figured it
was diploid, but I'm glad you confirmed it. As for my intentions, I'm not
really sure what I hope to achieve. Mostly I just want to investigate it's
fertility, so I will try crossing it with all sorts of things once I get a
big enough clump.
Regarding the rest of your message I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler to
develop a fertile family by first inducing tetraploidy in tectorum before
attempting to cross it with beardeds? But that's a project for someone
else, as I have no desire to mess with colchicine! (I'll be happy to do
the hybridizing though once a tet tectorum is available.)
To tell the truth, I'm somewhat surprised nobody has tried this before. If
the Paltec cross can be made with diploid parents, then it stands to reason
tetraploid parents should work too.
I have tried all sorts of unusual Spec-X crosses with good success.
Although I have to be skeptical of the results until the seedlings actually
bloom... I've heard too many stories of bees beating the hybridizers to the
flowers. If they're authentic, you'll be sure to hear the news in 2001 or
2002 when they start to bloom!
Oh, by the way, I assume that Paltec has never been used as a parent before??
Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6
http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html
