EVIDENCE FOR MATERNAL TRANSMISSION OF CHLOROPLAST DNA IN THE GENUS ASPLENIUM (ASPLENIACEAE, PTERIDOPHYTA)

Authors
VOGEL JC RUSSELL SJ RUMSEY FJ BARRETT JA GIBBY M
Citation
Jc. Vogel et al., EVIDENCE FOR MATERNAL TRANSMISSION OF CHLOROPLAST DNA IN THE GENUS ASPLENIUM (ASPLENIACEAE, PTERIDOPHYTA), Botanica acta, 111(3), 1998, pp. 247-249
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Botanica acta → ACNP
ISSN journal
09328629
Volume
111
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
247 - 249
Database
ISI
SICI code
0932-8629(1998)111:3<247:EFMTOC>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Little is known about the mode of transmission of chloroplasts in fern s, despite the importance of such knowledge for molecular phylogenetic and biosystematic studies. Andersson-Kotto (1930, 1931) inferred from crossing experiments that chloroplasts are inherited biparentally in Asplenium scolopendrium L. Here we present evidence from artificial hy bridisation that demonstrates maternal inheritance of chloroplast DNA in the genus Asplenium (Aspleniaceae, Pteridophyta) using length varia tion in a non-coding spacer (trnL(UAA)-trnF(GAA)) in the chloroplast D NA.