I was looking at some flow cytometer chromosome counts today on several OT cultivars. Here are a couple examples. What surprised me is that I always thought when we called a diploid a 2n it was 100% 2n. The same for 3n and 4n, etc. But the numbers show differently. A couple examples.
Anastasia (OT4n) tested: 2n=17%, 3n=14%, 4n=60%, Differing ploidity= 9%
African Lady (OT3n) tested: 2n=2%, 3n=79%, 4n=11%, Less than 4n=8%
Blueberry Crush (OT2n) tested: 2n=80%, 3n=15%, 4n=5%
The numbers are pretty much typical of the 15 to 20 samples I looked at.
