Sunflower "albino": Expert claims it is a "sectorial chimera"

It is the case of agricultural engineer Abelardo de La Vega, a Corteva Agriscience breeder, Doctor in Agricultural Sciences from the UBA, who spoke with Agroperfiles regarding the issue, at a time when producer Brauer showed this portal images demonstrating the advance of the white color in the stem and petals of the sunflower, prompting him to protect it by fencing it with posts. A SECTORIAL CHIMERA De La Vega confirmed that it is a sectorial chimera. This means that when the plant is still very small, a cell mutates for whatever reason, it may be simply a non-induced mutation but not, absolutely for any environmental situation, that is, it would have to be ruled out that this was motivated by herbicides, he told Agroperfiles. From there on - De La Vega indicated - all the tissue that grows from the multiplication of that cell carries the mutation. Normally when one sees the chapter, it is when one sees a sectorial chimera, when one sees the sunflower chapter all the mutated or ...