It’s that time of the year, when all the pollination you undertook over summer has developed into lovely ripe pods full of seed. Please remember the Northern Tasmanian Lilium Society Inc., as the Seed Exchange requires donations.
If you have any spare seed left over this year, can you please consider
donating it to the Societies Seed Exchange? All lilium, allied and
companion plant seeds are welcome. If you can candle the seed for
donation, it will be greatly appreciated. Please make sure each
individual seed lilium seed lot is clearly labelled, with its division,
cross, parent’s ploidy level if known and your name.
This is a preparatory explanation of concepts for the next article which will be ‘Dominant and Recessive Traits in Liliums and their Role in Practical Hybridizing’ by Joe Hoell.
To understand the effects and importance of dominant and recessive genes, it is necessary to understand a bit about the process by which plants and cells within those plants divide and multiply. There are two processes, the process called meiosis, the division which produces the sex cells (gametes), and the process which causes cells to multiply and increase in number, thereby making the plant grow. This process is called mitosis.
