martin-bernstein
Anything Lava!
Hi all,
Hoping to drum up some interest in this forum again so here I go starting a thread.
Always been fascinated with the red modifying genes and line breedings. Recently chatted with Don of SMR about the cherry gene. I hope he doesn’t mind me sharing what he wrote:
“It is one of the incompletely dominant red-modifying genes, but how, what degree of red and how it manifests is why I'm calling it a new mutated gene. In the mid 1990s I bought a pair of sub-adult Blizzards from a friend. For years I sold the babies, but ppl complained they were more pink than the expected white of most Blizzards. It was well over a decade later--after the female died in brumation--that I bred an Amel to the male Blizzard. The red on the babies was amazing. I mention when this began because no red-modifying mutated genes had ever been identified/discovered in the hobby in the mid-1990s. This does not mean Cherry Amels are an utterly unique gene, but it's the way it manifests and how deeply the red that sets this one apart from current Red-modifying mutants. They're red-orange for many months after hatching--not unlike most red-modifying mutants--but Cherry Amels get redder FASTER, and by 1.5 years of age, the reds are deeper than any other red-modified Amel compound mutants I've ever seen. I stop short of declaring it to be a new gene, but certainly the relatively few customers of mine can't praise the gene enough. Here's a pic of a Super (homozygote--possessing both of the paired Cherry gene copies) next to a Key corn for color reference.”
Anyone here have more info on red modifying genes? I have also wondered if the old school bloodreds were diffused + a red modifier?
Lastly, I’m very interested to know more about Joe Pierce’s magma and Ruby stuff.
Hoping to drum up some interest in this forum again so here I go starting a thread.
Always been fascinated with the red modifying genes and line breedings. Recently chatted with Don of SMR about the cherry gene. I hope he doesn’t mind me sharing what he wrote:
“It is one of the incompletely dominant red-modifying genes, but how, what degree of red and how it manifests is why I'm calling it a new mutated gene. In the mid 1990s I bought a pair of sub-adult Blizzards from a friend. For years I sold the babies, but ppl complained they were more pink than the expected white of most Blizzards. It was well over a decade later--after the female died in brumation--that I bred an Amel to the male Blizzard. The red on the babies was amazing. I mention when this began because no red-modifying mutated genes had ever been identified/discovered in the hobby in the mid-1990s. This does not mean Cherry Amels are an utterly unique gene, but it's the way it manifests and how deeply the red that sets this one apart from current Red-modifying mutants. They're red-orange for many months after hatching--not unlike most red-modifying mutants--but Cherry Amels get redder FASTER, and by 1.5 years of age, the reds are deeper than any other red-modified Amel compound mutants I've ever seen. I stop short of declaring it to be a new gene, but certainly the relatively few customers of mine can't praise the gene enough. Here's a pic of a Super (homozygote--possessing both of the paired Cherry gene copies) next to a Key corn for color reference.”
Anyone here have more info on red modifying genes? I have also wondered if the old school bloodreds were diffused + a red modifier?
Lastly, I’m very interested to know more about Joe Pierce’s magma and Ruby stuff.