[pbs] embryo rescue?
piaba
piabinha at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 24 16:36:05 EST 2004
what the heck is an embryo rescue?
i have read before that people have crossed turkeys
with chickens. that sounds like a pretty wide cross
to me. not sure if that's true, and i have never seen
or heard of such mixed offspring.
tsuh yang
--- "J.E. Shields" <jshields at indy.net> wrote:
> Hi Dave and all,
>
> According to Alan Meerow's DNA studies, the Nerines
> are embedded in the
> ancient African clade while Lycoris are part of the
> Eurasian clade, which
> also includes Narcissus and Galanthus.
>
> Nerine is most closely related to Crinum, Amaryllis,
> and Brunsvigia, e.g.
> bigenerics like Amarine.
>
> Now I have seen plants 30 or so years ago, produced
> by Ms. Margot Williams
> at USDA using embryo rescue, the reperesented such
> wide crossdes aas you
> suggest. One was and African Crinum X Hippeastrum.
> If that cross can be
> made to work, Nerine X Lycoris could too, I'd bet.
> But you would probably
> have to be willing to use embryo rescue. Go for it!
>
> The Crinum X Hippeastrum was a weirdly distorted
> plant. It looked like the
> genes were not at all happy to be sharing the same
> cell nucleus.
>
> Regards,
> Jim Shields
> in central Indiana
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