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"SPECKLED WHITE AND BLUE Morning Glory variants occur when a transposons has disrupted the blue pigment gene. In the native deep blue bell, the transposons is not active or not present. These transposons can jump around the DNA affecting both shape and color." https://lnkd.in/d7HNP37 View in LinkedIn

PIGMENTATION PATTERNS IN MORNING GLORY, a valuable guide to our current understanding of the genetics of the phenomenon. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1926-5028 View in LinkedIn

"THE FLOWER STRUCTURE of the Morning Glory are determined by three main classes of genes, A, B and C. The petals are formed at the points of A and B activity. If a jumping gene lands on any of these three gene classes it causes the variants to be formed, and can also affect other genes." https://lnkd.in/dKBUTm2 View in LinkedIn

'Forest cities': the radical plan to save China from air pollution https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/17/forest-cities-radical-plan-china-air-pollution-stefano-boeri?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

"DIFFERENT MORNING GLORY STRAINS are actually created by genetic disruptions caused by jumping genes, and the disruptions of normal gene functions creates the color and shape varieties of the mutants." https://lnkd.in/dxS_fjc View in LinkedIn

"TRANSPOSONS, jumping genes, transposable elements, are pieces of "foreign" DNA that can jump around a genome and from one genome to another genome, and resemble retroviruses like HIV. 90% of the maize genome is transposons and 50% of the human genome. They are key in causing Morning Glory variants." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposable_element View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATING MENDELIAN GENETICS. "The Edo Period horticulturists displayed a deep empirical understanding of what we now call Mendel's Laws and the role of factors that affected flower colors and forms that we now know to be caused by transposons or jumping genes." https://lnkd.in/dru85i9 View in LinkedIn

DUTCH TULIP MADNESS. "A particularly rare tulip, Semper Augustus, was priced at around 1,000 guilders in the 1620s. But just before the crash, it was valued at 5,500 guilders per bulb—roughly the cost of luxurious house in Amsterdam. Prices collapsed in February 1637—although data here are particularly poor—and a few investors were left bankrupt." Curiously coincidental with the Edo period in Japan (1603-1867). Also, both flowers are governed by viral/transposon genetics. https://lnkd.in/dvpHgV5 View in LinkedIn

EXOTIC FORMS. "During the Edo Period (1608-1868), without the benefit of Mendelian genetics, Japanese breeders produced thousands of unique morning glories. Many of these strains still exist collected and maintained by the Japanese Museum of Natural History and individual breeding programs. Modern horticulturists in Japan continue to focus on the breeding of new morning glories. In 2005 a morning glory without petals was developed." https://lnkd.in/d_uwQ3a View in LinkedIn

TULIP ORIGINS in Europe are frequently attributed to Turkey or Persia, but the substantial trading activity of the East India Company (and its botanist's avid collections, and botanical diffusions) in Japan at the time of the appearance of tulips in Europe, combined with the avid and advanced horticultural practices in Edo period Japan make the tulip a probable item of horticultural exchange. View in LinkedIn