similarity of sports
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- Subject: similarity of sports
- From: "* <z*@rulbim.leidenuniv.nl>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:31:02 +0000
Ken
Her an attemp to explain in short your questions
First a definition:
A sport is a shoot deviating from the mother plant
This deviation can be due to
1.mitotic recombination
2.chimeral rearrangement
3. rarely a mutation
4. other causes
Examples:
ad 1. a yellow plant getting a green edge
ad 2. a green or yellow shoot from any variegated plant
ad 3. a variegated plant from a green.blue one like June
( see my rule of thumb in the journal)
In the case of 1. and 3. all similar looking sports are, genetical at
least, different. In the case of 2. all similar sports are identical
like the green sports from Spilt milk. More details in the next
journal
Ben J.M.Zonneveld
Clusius lab pobox 9505
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Zonneveld@RULbim.LeidenUniv.NL
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