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Image Title: Chimeric Branches of the Sawara False Cypress, Chamaecyparis pisifera `nana aureovariegata'
Image Credit: Robert W. Korn, Bellarmine University
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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Chimeric branches of the sawara false cypress, Chamaecyparis pisifera `nana aureovariegata' collected at Bernheim Forest, Clermont, Kentucky. Albino mutant sectors give rise irreversibly to completely albino branches, suggesting a single cell is the fount of all cells of a shoot.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Analysis of shoot apical organization in six species of the Cupressaceae based on chimeric behavior

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