Re: Origins of VFTs
Jeffrey Michael Stein (steinjef@student.msu.edu)
Mon, 20 Jun 1994 17:24:54 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Generally speaking, doesn't radiation, natural or otherwise,
> create freaky plants that don't survive or reproduce well?
>
> ---Steve
>
Yes, mutations usually do not benefit the plant. But on rare occasions they
can. When you consider the number of mutations nessecary to get a plant to
change it's leaf structure, have a functional closing mechanism, produce
digestive enzymes, etc I'm hard pressed to follow the idea that a VFT is the
result of a mutant plant strain. At least not all at once.
Does anyone know how these organs/functions are mapped out on the chromosomes
of a VFT? i.e. a general idea of linkage. Have they even been mapped?
JMS