Subject:     Ed Murray pollen
Received:    7/26/99 10:13 AM
From:        Peter F. Mueller
To:          nick15@eve.assumption.edu

Nick,

I've checked the pollen of Ed Murray, and compared it with the one of
Blue Purple, a very pollen-fertile diploid. The grains are smaller,
quite irregularly shaped, and of different sizes. Indeed, I also found
very few quite huge and regularly shaped grains too, I guess less than
1 out of 300. These probably are unreduced and thus usable pollen
cells.

I'll pot the dug Ed Murray in light, sandy soil, in order to get fast
growing new root tips within a few weeks. Then I'll try another count,
and hope to clarify if there are 21, 22, or 23 chromosomes.

Also, I'm looking forward to receive interesting material from you in
fall to do more chromosome counts. In small pots they probably produce
usable root tips already during winter.

Best wishes,
               Peter