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Ploidy is the number of sets of chromosomes...

Ploidy Level

My main focus from the beginning of my program has been tetraploids, but I also bred a large number of diploids at the beginning of my program and took most of them through my rust screening program as a comparison set to the tetraploids. Below you will find a listing of ploidy levels of my introductions.

About Ploidy

Ploidy is the number of chromosomes of a given organism.

Species daylilies occur naturally in diploid (double strand DNA) and triploid (triple strand DNA) examples. While natural tetraploids could have been produced from the triploids, the main body of the current tetraploid gene pool derives from chemical conversion of hybrid diploid materials, through both plant conversion and seed conversion.


When all else is equal, the tetraploids tend to be more robust, because they have four strands of DNA, doubled from the natural diploid level. While there is recent research pointing to there being multiple levels of polyploidy in hybrid daylilies, diploid and tetraploid are still useful categories for our modern hybrid daylilies. While it will be much better understood in the future, for now we can generally rely on the diploid/tetraploid divide.


My work has focused on tetraploids from the beginning, but I also worked with diploids at the beginning of my program to study them to help in understanding how to breed the tets, and to have as a control group to compare the tetraploids to as I ran the five-year rust resistance screening program. 


Because I grew and bred a large number of fancy, modern diploid cultivars and seedlings through my rust resistance screening program, I was able to identify a good number of diploids that were exceptionally resistant with exceptional plant and flower traits. I bred within many of those lines to gauge results based on rust resistance and other specific traits. From that group I produced some excellent materials, both for gardens and for future breeding efforts.


Tetraploids, when all else is equal, are more robust than diploids, and that is what I like about them. For more information on my tetraploid breeding program and its goals, click here.



SUN DRAGON DAYLILIES INTRODUCTIONS PLOIDY LISTINGS

Diploid

Unknown/Other

Tetraploid

Aladdin Sane

Baalbek

Eternal Mist

Glacial Substance 

Stellar Princess 

Substance Of Sunlight

Vorlon Empire

Barbie’s Malibu Vacation

Black Hole Implosion 

Changes of Light

Clouds Upon The Sky

Fires Ablaze

Frozen River

Ghosts Of Phoenicia

Glam Rock

Hunters In The Sky 

Smoke On The Horizon 

Pigments Of Hals

The Star of Earendil

Weaving The Web

Bard The Bowman 

Color Of The Heart

Evening Substance

Jane Jets On

Magic Of Freya

Marilyn Munster

Old Toby

So Substantial

Substantial Rosebud

Substantially Awesome

Twisted Sensibility

Changeable As The Weather 

Endless Pigment 

Evidence Of Light

Solar Spiral

Substantial Impact

Substantial Impressions

The Darkness In The Light 

Waterfall Ruffles

Ziggy Really Sang

Barbie's Dream Flower

Creepy Weird

Feathered Dragon

Feathered Flamingo

Galactic Center

Heart Of The Quasar

Impressionist At Heart

Kaleidoscopic Evidence

Misty Mountains Cold

Peacock Eyes

Samwise The Brave

Substantial Angel

Substantial Princess

Contemplation Of Chaos

Flamingos On Ice

Vorlon Oddity

Wabi Sabi

Phoenician Royalty

Early Symphony

Substantial Glow

Substantial Heart 

Substantial Substance

Ziggy Played Guitar

Lavender Feathers

Mount Doom

Substantial Returns

Vorlon Encounter Suit

Vorlon Revelation

Heart Of Bravery

Lavender Blue Royalty

Leaping Screaming

Tetraploid

Unknown/Other

Tetraploid

Butterscotch Queen

Cheddar Gorgeous 

Elizabethan Courtly Love 

Elizabethan Sharp Wit

Glow Of The Heart 

Implausible Titan 

Solar Disk 

Tomato Kimchi

Arrowhead Star

Bela’s Star

Dragon Princess

Elizabethan Lips 

Elizabethan Persistence

Flaming Candelabra

Implausibly Ancient

I See Your Teeth

Substance Upon Substance

Ancient Solar Flare 

Astraea

Black Hole Sun

Dreams Become Things

Elizabethan Fairy Queen

Elizabethan Lace Collar

Elizabethan Royalty

Explosion Of Substance

Solar Soul

Spice Addiction

Spice Eyes

Titan Goddess 

Welded Dragon

Ancient Ent 

Dracarys

Elizabethan Argus

Elizabethan Fine Gloves 

Elizabethan Minerva

Elizabethan Rainbow Portrait

Elizabethan Ruby Ring

Elven Sunburst

Emerald Trader

Far Above the World

Little Dragon On The Prairie

Origin of Symmetry

Sun Dragon 

Korean Mother Of Pink

Korean Mother Of Purple

Elizabethan Fantasia

Eos At Dawn

Korean Queen

Wookie Goddess

The Spice Must Flow

Amethyst Symmetry

Ancient Medallion

Elizabethan Rouged Cheeks

Fuchsia On High

Korean Dragon King

Lavender Sunrise

Magenta Stardust

Midnight Stardust


Unknown/Other

Unknown/Other

Unknown/Other

Recent flow cytometry testing suggests that Temple Of Bacchus is a diploid. If that is the case, perhaps its ability to create seedlings with tetraploid partners is due to unreduced gametes. I registered it as unknown ploidy.

Temple Of Bacchus

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