Lycoris season 1
J.E. Shields (Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:07:42 PDT)
I also suspect that somatic mutations have crept into the clone(s) of
squamigera over the years. The more prolifically a clone propagates, the
more likely somatic changes are to occur.
Jim Shields
At 12:56 PM 7/27/2010 -0500, Adam wrote:
Re Lycoris squamigera and its sterile triploid status. Mutations could
have crept in over the years so that the sterility is not as complete as
it was originally, and not due merely to the diploid/triploid
mismatch,. In diploid irises, occasionally a pollen grain or ovum will
be tetraploid owing to a failure or lapse at meiosis, yielding an
incomplete meiosis, with subsequent readiness for fertility It could
happen with Lycoris, no?
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