
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Beardsell, DV 
A1  - Considine, JA 
T1  - Lineages, Lineage Stability and Pattern Formation in Leaves of Variegated Chimeras of <I>Lophostemon confertus</I> (R. Br.) Wilson &amp; Waterhouse and <I>Tristaniopis laurina</I> (Smith) Wilson &amp; Waterhouse (Myrtaceae)
JF  - Australian Journal of Botany
JO  - Aust. J. Bot.
Y1  - 1987
VL  - 35
IS  - 6
SP  - 701
EP  - 714
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9870701 
N2  - Three variegated chimeras of L. confertus and T. laurina arise spontaneously in seedling populations: 1, white margin: green centre, 2, green margin: light green centre and 3, green margin: white centre. Types 1 and 2 are found in T. laurina and types 1 and 3 in L. confertus. We have determined chloroplast distribution in the leaf tissues by fluorescence microscopy to assess the basis for these colour patterns. In L. confertus, a layer of collenchyma underlies the adaxial epidermis, replaces the upper layer of palisade, and does not mask mutant inner tissues, concealed by the adaxial layer of palisade in type 2 leaves of T. laurina. The central colour patterns are explained on the basis of accepted paths of cell lineage in leaf development (protoderm green in all three types; hypodermal derivatives genetically green in 2 and 3; and subhypodermal cells chlorophyll-deficient in types 2 and 3). The cell lineages postulated are similar in both species and we show that the observations can be accounted for only by a shift in lineage path during leaf ontogeny. We conclude that some established concepts of leaf ontogeny require revision. 
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