monocot seedlings without chlorophyll
Robert Lauf via pbs (Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:03:39 PST)

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

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