White Cotyledons on One Seedling
My AP students are growing fast plants, and one of them got this for one of her planters. The seeds were taken from a random pool that has both purchased seeds and seeds cultivated from past classes. I don’t have any information on the underlying cause of the lack of color in this plant. So I pose her question to you all… “What’s the deal?”
There are albino trees, that sprout off of a mother tree or somehow pull nutrients from other trees. I wonder if there is any way you could somehow get the plant to take up a sugar solution as an energy source…..hmmmmmm
Influence of Sugars on the Growth of Albino Plants
L. Knudson and E. W. Lindstrom
American Journal of Botany , Vol. 6, No. 10 (Dec., 1919), pp. 401-405
Published by: Botanical Society of America
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2435069
Growth Behavior of Green and Albino Plants of Episcia cupreata “Pink Brocade” In vitro
Chee-Kok Chin
In Vitro , Vol. 16, No. 10 (Oct., 1980), pp. 847-850
Published by: Society for In Vitro Biology
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/stable/4292425
This happens once in a while…..the real question/challenge is how would you establish a line of these plants? It would be cool if you could figure it out. 😉