Yes Dinesh, I am receiving all the emails from Madhuri ji properly. Regards Prashant
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Madhuri ji, none of your mails go into my spam folder; do not know about > others. > Have been receiving every mail of yours. > > Other friends may comment accordingly. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> ---Had gone in my spam. dont know whether the group received it. hence >> sending again >> Madhuri >> >> On *Wed, 22/6/11, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>* wrote: >> >> Dear Shubhada >> To start with >> every organism has fixed number of chromosomes in each cell of the body, >> which in deploid organisms we call 2n (two sets of ) chromosomes. During >> sexual reproduction when gametes are formed the two sets seperate , thus the >> gametes have only one set of chromosomes, n. When the two gametes fuse (like >> pollen grain and ovule , or sperm with ovum) we again get a deploid cell >> (n+n=2n) called zygote. This after repeated cell division and organ >> formation form the individual. plant or animal. That is how we get half >> chromosomes from father and half from mother. >> Every new cell formed here after cell division is deploid. And then we say >> race continues. >> During the cell division every chromosome is attached to a spindle by a >> fibre called spindle fibre. This pulls the chromosome to pole when the >> chromosomes are in dividing state. >> If the chromosome fails to attach to the fibre it fails to get >> incarporated in new cells formed, either gamete or normal body cell. thus >> cells produced are abnormal because they miss one or more chromosomes. >> Sometimes the chromosomes in deviding state fail to detach from one >> another and the whole lot go to one cell while the other cell gets nothing. >> the one which gets nothing perishes, while the one get both sets is now >> abnormal gamete having 2n number of chromosomes instead of n. When this >> gamete fuses with other gamete of n type the zygote gets 3n which is called >> as polyploid. >> this can happen in the body cells also. like in plants when the cells are >> dividing during growth the chromosomes duplicate in each cell and seperate >> into half. so each cell gets 2n. But sometimes if the duplicated chromosomes >> are not seperated, -abnormal- then the resulting cell gets 4n >> because chromosomes are already duplicated. such cell when form further >> cells they all will have 4n chromosomes. polyploid cell from where new shoot >> formed will be polyploid. >> many a times it may result into triploi--3n, tetraploid--4n, >> pentaploid--5n, hexaploid--6n, hectaploid7n, octaploid 8n ect. >> polyploi result into gigantism that is big flowers, leaves etc. >> when this occurs naturaly it is seen as what is seen in your Lily >> flowers. >> This phenomenon is called as chromosome abberation >> pl search googal for elustrations. >> Dear Botanists and Zoologists pl forgive me for the use of crude language >> and avoiding the bumbarding words. >> thank you >> Madhuri >> --- On *Sat, 11/6/11, shubhada nikharge >> <[email protected]>*wrote: >> >> >> From: shubhada nikharge <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:71359] The flower of Crinum latifolium with 12 >> petals,12 stamens & 2 stigmas >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Saturday, 11 June, 2011, 9:16 AM >> >> Madhuriji, >> thanks very much. pl. explain me in detail. i am not a botany student. >> Cheers, >> Shubhada >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/shubhada_nikharge/sets/ >> http://www.saveranibagh.org >> "I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse >> to do the something I can do." >> >> >> >> --- On *Fri, 10/6/11, [email protected] <[email protected]>*wrote: >> >> >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:71359] The flower of Crinum latifolium with 12 >> petals,12 stamens & 2 stigmas >> To: "shubhada nikharge" <[email protected]>, "Efloraindia" < >> [email protected]> >> Date: Friday, 10 June, 2011, 10:17 AM >> >> Might be a case of natural polyploidy. Where the chromosomes while >> division of cells occur donot seperate. Leading to teraploidy and gigantism. >> If details required may have to write separate mail. >> Madhuri >> Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *shubhada nikharge <[email protected]> >> *Sender: *[email protected] >> *Date: *Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:05:44 +0530 (IST) >> *To: *indian tree pix<[email protected]> >> *Subject: *[efloraofindia:71359] The flower of Crinum latifolium with 12 >> petals, 12 stamens & 2 stigmas >> >> Hi all, >> The crinum lilies have bloomed after the 1st shower on 2nd June 2011. I >> have been observing the plot at CEC, on BNHS land at Goregaon(East), Mumbai >> for last 4 years where at least 20 -25 plants of Crinum latifolium sprout. >> The flower of C. latifolium has 6 petals, 6 stamens, and 1 stigma. >> I saw a very unusual flower of Crinum lily today which had 12 petals, 12 >> stamens and 2 stigmas. I had never seen such flower in last 4 years. so >> wanted to share with the pics. >> >> Cheers, >> Shubhada >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/shubhada_nikharge/sets/ >> http://www.saveranibagh.org >> "I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse >> to do the something I can do." >> >> >

