Snake of the Day 04-04-17

Show & Tell

Color comparison between two Adult female Amels; a homozygote (aka: Super) Cherry mutant (left in pic) and a Visual-het Cherry (right in pic) the latter of which demonstrates only a portion of the extra red this mutation expresses in homozygosity.  The Cherry mutation is believed to have the mode of inheritance that is dominant to wild-type (perhaps incompletely-dominant?).  Some of you out there may get excited that you could have a HET Cherry, because you have a corn that resembles the snake on the right.  We don’t suggest that the Het expression of this mutation is unique.  I’ve had many corns that had a color exhibition like toDAY’s featured HET Cherry Amel, but were not Cherry mutants?  Ps, the flash in the Southwest corner of my shooting theater over-diffused, so that’s why the Super Cherry Amel is less flash lit.