Article
Exceptional inheritance of plastids via pollen in Nicotiana sylvestris with no detectable paternal mitochondrial DNA in the progeny.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Oct 2012
Thyssen Gregory, Svab Zora, Maliga Pal
Abstract excerpt
Plastids and mitochondria, the DNA-containing cytoplasmic organelles, are maternally inherited in the majority of angiosperm species. Even in plants with strict maternal inheritance, exceptional paternal transmission of plastids has been observed. Our objective was to detect rare leakage of plastids via pollen in Nicotiana sylvestris and to determine if pollen transmission of plastids results in co-transmission...
Topics
- Cytoplasm
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- DNA, Plant
- Extrachromosomal Inheritance
- Genes, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Markers
- Genotype
- Mitochondria
- Plant Shoots
- Plastids
- Pollen
