Morning Glories: Crinkled vs uncrinkled, 1 by gofast

gofast wrote:
Well, I suppose we need to get back onto the subject again.

Why are Ipomoea tricolor called "tricolor" are there only three colours, namely white, blue and pink?

What I find strange is that even though yellow does exist such as the i.ochracea and hederifolia, it does not seem to be present in either the tricolors, nor the purpurea, nor the nils...

I have been slightly reprimanded by Ron for making too many analogies with animals, and we are talking PLANTS here...

He is right, of course, but I have studied a lot of guinea pig genetics before joining this forum, so I think I understood the genetic principles well, and I am looking forward to thinking and doing the impossible (because limitations are often rather in our minds...and don't always exist we sometimes just imagine them).

So the question one needs to bear in mind when breeding animals or plants is: What colours or types do I want and can this really be done. For a long time, the tan gene (combination of black and red) was unheard of in gunea pig breeding till one day it suddenly popped up and was discovered by a judge who had known this gene from rabbits...From that moment, the tan craze started and almost everybody started introducing this gene into their stock.

I give another example where a colour was added into a rabbit breed. The colour "yellow" existed in rabbits, but the difficulty was to keep the spots separate from the black spots...so I put in two pictures here to demonstrate what I mean.

This one is a German "Schecken rabbit" with black dots only.



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