Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:36:49 +0100 From: Nigel Hurneyman <nigel.hurneyman@oracle.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2454$foo@default> Subject: Re: Chromosome Counts
>>Perhaps not even the aneuploids are sterile. There are a couple of
examples in which hybrids of parents with different chromosome counts
remain fertile. Remember that sterile hybrids in _Drosera_ are the
exception rather than the rule! Only because the most widespread and
therefore well-known hybrid (_D. rotundifolia_ * _D. anglica_) is
usually sterile, the superstition that all _Drosera_ hybrids or
aneuploids must be sterile is so terribly common and endlessly
perpetuated in sloppy literature.
And by sloppy pygmy growers like myself?
NigelH
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