Paternal inheritance of plastids in Medicago sativa
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
- Vol. 78 (6), 863-866
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00266672
Abstract
Plastids are plant cellular organelles that are generally inherited from the maternal parent in the angiosperms. Many species exhibit biparental inheritance of plastids, but usually with a predominantly maternal influence. In contrast to this, we report strong paternal inheritance of plastids in reciprocal crosses of alfalfa, Medicago sativa, by following restriction fragment length polymorphisms for plastid DNA in two normal green plastids. Mitochondrial inheritance remained exclusively maternal.Keywords
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