No pollen, no seeds (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

No pollen, no seeds

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Normal tobacco seeds (left) are dense and germinate; seeds from plants with the mitochondrial gene deletion (right) are mostly hollow and don’t germinate.

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Photo courtesy of Ralph Dewey, NC State University.

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