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Originally Posted by Darren Abbey
There are potentially other recessive orange mutations, so to be certain you were dealing with the 'tangerine' gene, you would have to do a test cross into a strain you already know has 'tangerine'. Without that cross, but knowing that 't' is the most common orange gene, it is reasonable to tentatively say that "Zolotoe Serdtse" includes 't' until you have further data.
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Also, my bad, Beta is not dominant after all. Fruit of F1 offspring of Beta Orange X Rutgers were intermediate in colour (orange red) and in carotenoid profile.
Also the phenotype of Beta was completely masked in yellow fruit (rrBB, rrBb and rrbb indistinguishable).
http://www.genetics.org/content/38/2/117.full.pdf