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Originally Posted by Hippie3  no,
based on what little i know about albinism and genetics
there's no 'fusing' going on,
a specimen will either
carry the gene for pigment [normal]
or it will not [albino]. |
Correct. But pigment production does seem to be affected to some degree. It's been my hope beyond hope that adding healthy DNA substrains will somehow correct at least some of the damage. This may take a while for the substrains to sort themselves out thus I've avoided isolating at least for now. As Falbino grows older (I believe it's somewhere around generation 19 now) it seems to be settling down to a happy medium of light colored bodies with somewhat darker spores. Less pure albino fruits seem to appear as well as the wide range of fruiting substains. This has been my greatest fear as Falbino was really intended to produce a wide array of substrains. This is why I chose Falbino 2 for the backcross experiment instead of the most recent. I was hoping to lock in some of that diversity.
From what I gather from TMC each fruiting body consists of at least two (probably many more) substrains. This is what makes the mushroom adapt to it's environment as only the best suited substrains will will end up dominant when all the sorting is done. Here's a pic of what I believe to be two different substrains exsisiting in one fruiting body. Not a fusion so to speak as it is a co-exsistence.
Unfortunatley I don't have any pics of the gills, but PF can confirm this. The gills in the pigmented area will have color and drop purple spores while the gills in the nonpigmented areas will remain albino and hardly drop spores if at all. This feature can even be duplicated through cloning to some degree. Eventually with enough generations one or a like group of substrains will emerge victorious over the others. I beleive this is what occured with Workman's isolate of the PFA thus it only produces pure white flushes now. I'm willing to bet that it will never again produce a pigmented substrain.
Freaky - yes there are a vast assortment of parental traits thrown out by the Falbino. Altough most have nice solid stems (unlike it's F+ parent) the breadlike stems seem only to appear with the more pure albino specimens. The very pure will even nod. We may not be able to produce a heavy spore dipositor but I do feel this nodding effect can be corrected by cloning and an improved non-nodding version of the PFA can be obtained.
Thanks CT
