>To: plant-ed at net.bio.net>From: aheise at orchard.washtenaw.cc.mi.us (Anne Heise)
>Subject: Re: Asparagus too
>Date: 23 Oct 1997 18:34:24 -0700
>>Don't know about coffee, but I do remember hearing that the asparagus
>phenom does have a genetic basis, having to do I think with the
>breakdown
>of asparagine (or am I making this all up too conveniently?).
Some >people
>break it down to a smelly metabolite, some don't. I wouldn't be
>surprised
>if some intro bio textbook uses the asparagus gene as an illustration
>of
>some mendelian concept.
>>Anne Heise
>Washtenaw Community College
>Ann Arbor MI
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