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Post by reed on Dec 2, 2014 5:11:50 GMT -5
Indianamike, I am far from expert but have learned a lot form Joseph and Carol Deppe and Blueadzuki and others here about corn. I didn't even know corn had different colored layers or what they were called but I think what you have in your pink kernels is color on the aleurone layer. It is a thin layer of cells below the pericarp. The pericarp is the "shell" on the outside. If you soak some kernels in hot water for an hour or so you can take a sharp knife point to get it started and then peel it off. The pericarp can have color or not and even if it does it can be transparent so the aleurone color shows through. The pericarp comes from the mother plant and is the same on ALL kernels on a particular cob so if a cob has multiple colors it is caused by a transparent pericarp over varying aleurone. Once you peel off the pericarp you can scratch the aleurone off with your fingernail to see the color of the endosperm or starch. It will be either yellow or white. This link (hope it works) is to a post in my thread on a similar topic where I put pictures of some discected kernels alanbishop.proboards.com/post/104206/thread. Since the aleurone color can vary and (I think) can come from either parent, I bet the strawberry has pink aleurone and it got transferred to your white corn. Also (I think) the genetics for it is in the other kernels on those cobs even if it didn't show itself in this generation.
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Post by indianamike on Dec 11, 2014 9:36:52 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Dec 11, 2014 12:19:21 GMT -5
Beautiful!
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