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The Journal of Heredity 1978:69(5):327-330
© 1978 The American Genetic Association 69:327-330

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Biparental plastid inheritance in Pennisetum americanum

M. KRISHNA RAO, and PRASAD R. K. KODURU

The authors are, respectively, reader and research fellow in the Department of Botany, Andhra University, Waltair 530 003, India

Abstract

A chlorophyll-deficient phenotype, designated whitestriping-3, was detected in Pennisetuin atnericanum, inbred line IP 482. The mutant condition exhibited non-Mendelian, biparental inheritance with a suggestion of dominating maternal influence. Spontaneous plastid mutation and sorting out of the mutant plastids from the wild type were responsible for the striped phenotype. The relative rates of multiplication of the green and mutant plastids varied in different variegated plants; the factors responsible for such variable behavior of the plastids could not be identified.


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