Inheritance of red foliage in flowering dogwood (Cornus florida L.)
2010
Wadl, Phillip A | Wang, Xinwang | Pantalone, Vincent R | Trigiano, Robert N
Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida L.) is an ornamental tree valued for its showy white, pink, or red spring bract display and red fall color. A “pseudo” F₂ flowering dogwood population was recently developed from a honeybee mediated cross of ‘Cherokee Brave' × ‘Appalachian Spring'. The foliage color of 94 “pseudo” F₂ plants segregated into green- and red- leaved phenotypes and was visually rated for color on five spring dates over 3 years (2007-2009). Chi-square analyses of observed segregation of phenotypes indicated that a complementary gene interaction form of epistasis controls foliage color with a 9:7 two gene ratio. We propose the symbols rl ₁ and rl ₂ for the genes controlling this trait.
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