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THE MORNING GLORY VARIANT STRAINS included the native form (deep blue bell), speckled white and blue flowers, flowers with octopus-like white flowers, rimmed flowers, and color variants. Images of these extinct remarkable flowers are not available in the west, but Japanese academics have conserved some of these germlines. https://lnkd.in/d65ZzMp View in LinkedIn

EPIGENETIC INFLUENCES. "The flower variegation patterns can be determined by the frequency and timing of the excision of these transposons, and their stable insertions produce plain color flowers without generating pigmented spots or sectors; furthermore, both genetic and epigenetic regulation appeared to play important roles in determining the frequency and timing of the excision of the transposons." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065227X04801369 View in LinkedIn

OVER A THOUSAND VARIETIES of Morning Glories were bred by Japanese horticulturists since their introduction in Japan in the 9th century. Images of these extinct flower types are very hard to find but are displayed at the Tokyo National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan). They included a wild variety of floral forms including feathered, lobed, and frilled flowers in every type of color variation. https://lnkd.in/d2x6aNW View in LinkedIn

GENETICALLY CHARACTERIZED. "The Japanese morning glory has an extensive history of genetic studies. Many mutants in the colors and shapes of its flowers and leaves have been isolated since the 17th century, and more than 200 genetic loci have been localized for the 10 linkage groups. They include over 20 mutable loci, several with variegated flower phenotypes." https://lnkd.in/dp5iyXQ View in LinkedIn

STERILE VARIANTS of Morning Glories are quite common, and the Japanese people of the Edo Period propagated them with an intuitive or empirical estimation of Mendel's Laws, although not articulated as such. Normal appearing (recessive) plants with related genes will give rise to progeny with both normal phenotype and the variant. View in LinkedIn

RICH VARIETY OF TRANSPOSONS acting in Morning Glories and other variegated plants and flowers. These ancient jumping genes are very diverse. https://lnkd.in/djPktVH View in LinkedIn

FOUR NEW VARIEGATION GENES in Morning Glory flowers. https://lnkd.in/d7T-EmR View in LinkedIn

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WEBBED FEET. "The webbing between digits of a foot, as in waterfowl like the flightless cormorant, generally reflects the lack of such cell death and thus reveals the largely unaltered embryonic limb bud as a sort of simple ontogenetic artifact, yet one that is still obviously functional as a webbed foot and that bears too on the evolution of the taxon when viewed in comparison with related taxa (e.g., a duck’s foot vs. a chicken’s)." https://evolution-outreach.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-014-0012-5 View in LinkedIn

COMPOUND CLUES. "Another example of compound historical clues, apoptosis (programmed cell death) typically transforms a paddle-like vertebrate limb bud into a hand or foot with distinct, discrete digits." https://evolution-outreach.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-014-0012-5 View in LinkedIn