Morning Glories: Categorizing Mutant Morning Glories: Masaki vs. Demono, 0 by evr

evr wrote:
HOW TO GET SEEDS FROM DEMONO MUTANT MGS

The pictures of the blooms are from a book, while the pictures of the leaves are of my own (mine have not bloomed yet....so i had to use the book to explain). I will stay away from genetics and statistics and japanese language because it can get confusing. Arlan also explained this in his diary http://davesgarden.com/community/blogs/t/atenkley/4889/

As an example, we will talk about Lion-Double or Shishi botan systems because this is the easiest type of demono mutant morning glory. Please refer to the image attached to this post for this example.
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Let's just say you received seeds that were labeled, "Shishibotan". you grew four seeds and each seeds grew to plants similar to the picture below (plant 1, plant 2, plant 3, plant 4)

Plant 1
Round, single blooms with orthodox (normal) curled leaves

Plant 2
Round, double blooms with cordate (heartshaped) leaves

Plant 3
Feathered, single blooms with dragon claw leaves

Plant 4
Feathered, double blooms with dragon claw leaves

Out of four plants, only Plant 1 is the fertile one. Plant 1 will produce seeds, while the rest of the other plants will not. Now what you have to do is let Plant 1 self fertilize itself, you do not cross this with other plants (Plant 1 x Plant 1). The genes will segregate and be redistributed within the seeds produces. The next season, you are suppose to sow these seeds and "sow-test" for feathered, double blooms with dragon claw leaves (you will get any plants that look similar from Plant 1 to Plant 4 in this F1). If any of the F1 produce any feathered double blooms with dragon claw leaves (one that looks like Plant 4), then only the set of seeds that came from F (parent plant, Plant 1 from last year), then should be labeled as "Lion Double Mutant System"). Of course, you will have alot of plants that will look like Plant 1, so it is important to keep vines separated from other vines.

Some plants that look like Plant 1 will not carry for the double and feathered - double and feathered carriers is what we are going for because this is essentially the demono (any plants that look like Plant 4). So this is the reason why we do the sow test. Sow test can also be done during early fall, and the plant can be forced into early blooming to check if it has double bloom.

In this type of system, Plant 1 is called the parental stock. Any plants that look like Plant 4 is the Demono plant of the Lion double mutant system.

ADDITIONAL NOTES ON DRAGON CLAW LEAVES: Dragon claw leaves refer to the curling of the leaves, not exactly the shape of the leaves. It does contribute to the overall shape, hence the leaf looking like a claw of a dragon. At cotyledon stage, dragon claw leaves looks like normal cotyledons, but the edges are upturned (picture coming up later). Dragon claw leaves can also be subcategorized further into "clenched", "water-scoop" or "Long-tailed". I do not have much information on these, but hopefully we will be able to discuss about this later.

Willow systems are quite different, similar concept, but you will be looking for a different type of leaf shapes and flower shapes. Most of the seeds being distributed/shared within the DG community are willow leaves which is a bit more advanced.

This message was edited Aug 13, 2009 9:51 AM