Another cross for the Rainbow Pea Project, made in 2014.
I've already talked about Telephone in other threads, but to recap it's one of those old-fashioned 6ft+ white-flowered shelling peas that tastes really good.
NightMist is my nickname for an accession I got from JIC which has, believe it or not, GREEN flowers! Not just a bit of green in the centre like you sometimes see with white flowers, but a soft lime green distributed evenly throughout all the petals. The flowers don't stand out much from the foliage and they are quite small which doesn't help, but it's so unusual and strange-looking I just had to include it as part of the project.
The green flower colour (and the reduced flower size) is due to the gf gene which adds chlorophyll pigment to the petal. No anthocyanins are involved at all so unlike all my other crosses I actually want the a gene that makes Telephone white.
The F1 plants surprised me at first because they were all white-flowered, but then I realised that of course NightMist must have a as well. This means that I'm only concerned about the gf gene in this cross.
Here's what I expect to see:
3/4 aa Gf_ White flowers
1/4 aa gfgf Green flowers
I'm growing the F2 this year and I have 56 seeds which should be plenty.
I've already talked about Telephone in other threads, but to recap it's one of those old-fashioned 6ft+ white-flowered shelling peas that tastes really good.
NightMist is my nickname for an accession I got from JIC which has, believe it or not, GREEN flowers! Not just a bit of green in the centre like you sometimes see with white flowers, but a soft lime green distributed evenly throughout all the petals. The flowers don't stand out much from the foliage and they are quite small which doesn't help, but it's so unusual and strange-looking I just had to include it as part of the project.
The green flower colour (and the reduced flower size) is due to the gf gene which adds chlorophyll pigment to the petal. No anthocyanins are involved at all so unlike all my other crosses I actually want the a gene that makes Telephone white.
The F1 plants surprised me at first because they were all white-flowered, but then I realised that of course NightMist must have a as well. This means that I'm only concerned about the gf gene in this cross.
Here's what I expect to see:
3/4 aa Gf_ White flowers
1/4 aa gfgf Green flowers
I'm growing the F2 this year and I have 56 seeds which should be plenty.
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