Studies on the flower colours in Gladiolus I.

Recently, Shibata and Nozaka had reported the anthocyanin constitution of Gladiolus. As their results seemed to contain some unusual features from genetic point of view, the present re-investigation was conducted, in which some considerable amount of discrepancy was disclosed. The results obtained were summarized as follows: 1 Thirteen anthocyanins were identified. They were pelargonidin-3-rhamnosylglucoside, pelargonidin-3,5-doglucoside, pelargonidin-3-rhamnosylglucoside-5-glucoside, peonidin-3-rhamnosylglucoside, peonidin-3,5-diglucoside, peonidin-3-rhamnosylglucoside-5-glucoside, cyanidin-3,5-diglucoside, malvidin-3-rhamnosylgucoside, malvidin-3,5-diglucoside, malvidin-3-rhamnosylglucoside-5-glucoside, petunidin-3,5-diglucoside, petunidin-3-rhamnosylglucoside-5-glucoside and delphinidin-3,5-diglucoside.....