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Published online 23 March 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050321-8
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Cress overturns textbook genetics
Surprise finding shows that plants rewrite genetic code.
In a discovery that has flabbergasted geneticists, researchers have shown that plants can overwrite the genetic code they inherit from their parents, and revert to that of their grandparents.
The finding challenges textbook rules of inheritance, which state that children simply receive combinations of the genes carried by their parents.
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