Emergency inheritance: Challenge of plants to Mendel’s laws?

Authors

  • Daniel P Pastor de la Rubia Spain
  • Jesús Navas-Castillo Spain

Keywords:

Emergency inheritance, challenge, plants, Mendel’s laws

Abstract

A basic dogma of classical Mendelian genetics is that the alleles of a gene are inherited stably from one generation to the next, leading to predictable segregation. A work by Robert Pruitt’s group from the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Purdue University [Lolle et al., Nature 434, 505-509 (2005)], seems to challenge this principle. The initial observations that suggested unorthodox inheritance took place with the HOTHEAD (hth) mutants of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana

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Published

2007-03-20

How to Cite

Pastor de la Rubia , D. P., & Navas-Castillo , J. (2007). Emergency inheritance: Challenge of plants to Mendel’s laws?. Encuentros En La Biología, (116), 4–6. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18601