Claim · model-written summary
Six Iris germanica cultivars with different flower colors contained similar pigments.
- Taxon
- Iris germanica L.
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Iris germanicae0 - Outcome
- similar pigmentse0
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Verbatim
e0“Six cultivars of Iris germanica L. were found to contain similar pigments, whether the flowers were red, purple, blue, yellow, or white”
Title
Pigmentation in iris hybrids: occurrence of flavonoid pigments in six cultivars of Iris germanica
S. S. Ashtakala; D. F. Forward Canadian Journal of Botany 1971. doi:10.1139/b71-276
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation All studied iris cultivars shared one anthocyanin and other flavonoids.
- Observation All studied iris cultivars contained mangiferin.
- Observation The anthocyanin delphanin was unstable during extraction and chromatography.
- Association Differences in flower color were not explained by flavonoid occurrence.
- Mechanism The authors found evidence that anthocyanin pigment forms complexes in vivo.