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"plants can overwrite the genetic code they inherit from their parents, and revert to that of their grandparents..."

Did anyone else happen to hear this story ?

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050321/full/050321-8.html


Here is the abstract to the paper:
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v434/n7032/abs/nature03380_fs.html

3/31/2005 4:13:10 PM

Utah

Here it is in a nut shell picture:

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/9999/99997185F1.JPG

here is the associated article in news scientist:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7185

3/31/2005 4:17:19 PM

Pocatello (cliffwarren@yahoo.com)

Interesting... I read the articles.

My own take on it is kind of silly anecdotal evidence, but I have
always thought that in people, there is in many cases more
similarity between grandchildren and grandparents than there
is between children and parents. There is a big age
differential there, but if you look at old pictures, etc.,
I've found time and time again that, "it just seems to be so".

Must be the RNA............;-)

Anyway, back to pumpkins... from the picture it seems to
imply that in the case of selfing, one might not always
get the result that selfing might imply?

3/31/2005 4:38:13 PM