Re: yellow leaf = nuclear encoded
- To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: yellow leaf = nuclear encoded
- From: C*
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:02:34 -0500
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I don't know anything about the science of this argument. I remember
that genetics has something to do with peas, but that's about it.
What I do know is that Ben, you will never convince well educated,
knowledgable people that you are correct by telling them that you are too
busy to explain it and that they have to accept it because you say it is
so.
I don't know beans about genetics, but I've been in a few arguments in my
time. The way you convince people is to explain why you are right and
they are wrong. Even then, you probably won't convince your adversaries,
but you might have a chance at convincing the rest of us. If you don't
care whether any of us accepts your theory, then pick up your marbles and
go home. If you do care, then you have to at least try as hard as the
people you are arguing against. So far, from my perspective among the
uneducated masses, they seem to be trying pretty hard to show why you are
wrong and you just keep yelling that you are right. If you are an
educator, then educate us.
Chick
zonneveld wrote:
> The whole debate is a mess now.I cannot spend all my time
> correcting those statements that are not according to general
> genetic knowledge. This is my last attempt to get order:
> 1. Both pollen and eggcells contain a nuclear genome
> 2. In Hosta we have chloroplast genomes in the eggcells , but not
> in the pollen , so chloroplast genomes can only go to a seedling via
> the mother= eggcells ( = cytoplasmic inheritance)
> 3. One of my first controlled crosses was to bring pollen of a fully
> yellow leaved hosta onto a green mother plant. 50 % of the ofspring
> was yellow This clearly proofs that yellow in hosta is a dominant
> nuclear character .If we cannot agree on this it is pointless to
> continue
> Ben J.M.Zonneveld
> Clusius lab pobox 9505
> 2300 RA Leiden
> The Netherlands
> mintemp-16C(5F)
> Zonneveld@RULbim.LeidenUniv.NL
> Fax: 31-71-5274999
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