Variation in Lycoris squamigera

Tony Avent tony@plantdelights.com
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:48:19 PDT
Jim:

Very interesting.  From our experience, it's pretty easy to venture a 
good guess about the parents of most lycoris since the genetics of each 
parent show in the offspring.  From a plant breeders perspective, there 
is no way that L. straminea is involved in L. squamigera.  That being 
said, I'd bet we are looking at some misidentified plants in the 
literature. We've all seen how confusing this was in the crinum world 
where many of the reported parents in the old literature were 
incorrectly identified.

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James Waddick wrote:
>> 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.
>   


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