Re: Albino Anchomanes

From: Lewandjim at aol.com on 2002.04.24 at 19:11:43(8625) In a message dated 4/24/2002 12:08:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ju-bo@msn.com writes: Maybe something triggers the 'death' of all the chlorophyll for whatever reason. +More Julius et al., This gets really complicated because AT LEAST two different phenomena can be involved: 1. in some plants (e.g., corn) there appears to be a true genetic mechanism of the corn's sexual reproduction involved in chlorophyll-less plants; the question however is which genome does the "albino" factor affect - corn or the plastid itself! 2. plastids are actually symbiotic cell invaders from back in the early history of multi-cellular plants; they have their own reproductive pathways but usually are passed on by asexual transferance of the protoplasm of the host pod-parent to its ovules. It's conceivable that some small ovules did not receive plastids from the "mother tissue" and hence are albinistic. Jim Langhammer

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