monocot seedlings without chlorophyll

Kathleen Sayce via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:36:24 PST
> from Kathleen: How common is this condition?

from rw2229:  suspect more common among monocots than any of us realize. I've grown bamboo from seed (on those rare occasions when any is set), ... a good 50% of the seedlings lack chlorophyll.

My speculation is that monocots being the most recently evolved flowering plant group, they are also the most distant from the original eucaryote cells that acquired chloroplasts as cell organelles, and that fatal accumulations of chloroplast genetic errors have compounded in the entire group as a result. 

Meanwhile, the three white seedlings in the pot of Agapanthus have now turned pale yellow and are still hanging on. The one white seedling in the Watsonia pot is gone. 

Kathleen
PNW coast, with snow, sleet and freezing rain
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