monocot seedlings without chlorophyll

Pamela Harlow via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:20:20 PST
This suggests the benefit of raising plants from wild-collected seed.  Even
apparently healthy garden plants will have shrunken genetic variability
compared to their wild forebears, so that offspring may prove homozygous
for deleterious genes.  (I've seen white ophiopogon seedlings.)

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 8:04 AM Rodney Barton via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

>  I've seen white seedlings in irises, but it's not that common. It may be
> that the particular clones you have carry mutations.
> Rod
>
>
>    On Monday, February 1, 2021, 7:32:13 AM CST, Kathleen Sayce via pbs <
> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
>
>  I am curious to know how typical it is for seedlings in monocot groups to
> have no chlorophyll.
>
> This fall I noticed a tall Agapanthus in my garden had a few seeds on the
> stalk, so I gathered those that were left and sprouted them on a window
> sill, along with seeds from a Watsonia. So far, 14 of the 16 Agapanthus
> have chlorophyll, 2 do not, 12.5 percent.
> The Watsonia pot has 12 seedlings, 11 have chlorophyll, 8.3 percent.
>
> 12.5 percent seems high for a known fatal condition among photosynthetic
> species.
>
> How common is this condition?
>
> Kathleen
> Zone 8, PNW coast, with strafing rain
>
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