RE: [Aroid-l] Amorph. cross

From: hermine hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 2006.01.21 at 22:05:13(13756) At 01:41 PM 1/21/2006, Wilbert Hetterscheid wrote: I wouldn't hold my breath here: Amorphophallus bulbifer is a triploid (3n = 39) and could never ever produce fertile offspring of interspecific hybrid origin. It always sets purely apomictic seeds (without any pollination) and produces "offspring" identical to the mother plant. I am sorry, but I am not buying a ticket to see 100 bulbifer clones.......... Sorry to disappoint you.... Cheerio, Lord P. you know, when plants behave like this, it makes a regular person HUMBLE. When critters reproduce by making more of themselves without intervention, it is like, oh, call it DIVINE. I understand that frogs do this, which led to some interesting turns of plot in JURASSIC PARK, the worst movie of the Modern Era. but when I read the book and the dumb scientist said, oh we used some Rana DNA because our Tyrannosaurus rex DNA was a little broken, I ALREADY KNEW THE WHOLE PLOT. Polyploidy is one of my favourite things. hermine +More _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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