Didi the original article have color plates? I printed it in B/W ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Waddick" <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Variation in Lycoris squamigera > >Did you mean that L. straminea was a parent of L. squamigera or did you >>mean L. longituba? > > Dear Tony, > The lit says L. straminea. Seems odd, but see Kurita et all > paper, Synopsis of the Genus Lycoris, in SIDA 1994. > > But according to Identification and Classification of the > Genus Lycoris Using. Molecular Markers. > > straminea is 2N = 19, sprengeri is 2n = 22, longituba > is 2n = 16 and squamigera is 2n (3n) = 27 > > The only way you can get 2/3 n= 27 is to combine the 2n of > sprengeri and n or longituba to get 27 chromosomes. > > To me it seems like squamigera looks like a combo of > longituba and sprengeri, but the experimental crossing of straminea x > sprengeri produced the look alike. Odd > > If the Roh et all chromosome info is correct, the parentage > of Squamigera could ONLY be Sprengeri x longituba. > All the karyotype info in Roh is fairly confusing. > > > http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~lycoris/… > > > Best Jim W. > -- > Dr. James W. Waddick > 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. > Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 > USA > Ph. 816-746-1949 > Zone 5 Record low -23F > Summer 100F + > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/