Morning Glories: Ipomoea lacunosa, 1 by atenkley

atenkley wrote:
I don't know about foretelling the look of a flower, but some genetic traits will produce unique shapes and textures to the cotyledons.

The retracted gene, one of the major components in the large flowered JMGs, causes the flower to be larger in diameter and also often to have more than the five rays of a normal flower. It also causes the cotyledons to have more rounded lobes as opposed to the more pointed lobes of the normal or wild type JMG. Most of the large flowered JMGs will have these rounded cotyledons.

See how contorted the cotyledons become when the maple willow gene is expressed: http://davesgarden.com/journal/j/si/118291/


Arlan