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cytoplasmic inheritance in plants

Stephen M Jankalski CEREOID at prodigy.net
Tue Oct 12 20:43:45 EST 1999


Would like what the reference is so it can be read first hand. Could your
"Deep Plastid" reveal his sources of information? 

"Jon Greenberg" <jgreenberg at HAL.BSCS.ORG> wrote in article
<3803CF25.B3FCF51C at bscs.org>...
> I just received the following intriguing statement from someone who
> looked into this question for me. I don't have an authoritative source
> for it, though:
> 
> In one example in bananas (Musa acuminata) chloroplasts can be
> inherited maternally while mitochondria demonstrate paternal
> inheritance.
> 
> Now that's cool!
> 
> Jon
> 
> 



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