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Originally Posted by tmoney
is anyone in academia doing genetics research with any of these varieties does anyone know?
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I honestly doubt it. Counting chromosomes is very laborious and tedious. It takes a lot of time and chemicals that aren't easy to obtain. Also, while popular in the hobby, plants like Mini Mark are mostly unknown outside us hobbyists, so there is little incentive to count it.
At one time some hobbyists were active at doing some chromosome counts. You can find an old list of those at the bottom of
THIS article from Big Leaf Orchids. There have been a few added to it that are not on the list, but again not much is being done with it these days.
One note... some retailers (one in particular) likes to advertise some of their Phals as 4N, but honestly, they have no way of knowing. They guess by looking at certain characteristics that are common of tetraploids, and they might be right, but the plants haven't been counted. In fact, one cultivar they sold as 4N was counted years back, and it was definitely found to be 2N. It is used as a way to increase sales.
I hope that helps some.
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Originally Posted by tmoney
a related question, how in the heck do you make that rhs search function work?! like what do we need to type where to find these species? i think it was mrfakename that posted a link to the mini mark on there, but trying to use it myself i can’t get any results from other species.[COLOR="Silver"]
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I mostly use
THIS page when I do research on the RHS. Scroll down to the "Search by Grex name" Then you'd enter Phal in the first blank and "Mini Mark" in the second.