On Mon, 20 Jun 1994, Jeffrey Michael Stein wrote:
> >
> > 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
>