Apologies, yes, forgive my bias towards chloroplasts - true mitochondria also implicated in many maternally inherited processes including variegation and sterility. On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:03 AM Robert Lauf via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Interesting. When I was breeding variegated Pinellias, a friend who > happened to be a monocot geneticist told me to try to use the variegated > plant as the seed parent because at least some forms of variegation are > attributed to mitochondrial DNA, and the pollen doesn't have any > mitochondria. Don't know if that's true in Pinellia, but I was trying to > get variegated leaves and a red spathe, and ended up creating a race of > plants that frequently yielded that combination in the seedlings. The > plants are pretty cute and show a wide range of variegation. So I'm > guessing it's a lot more complicated than Mendel's beans. > > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>