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The pale green mutable system in maize

Peterson, P.A.

The pale green mutable system in maize - United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 1960. - Printed

Peer-review: Yes - Open Access: Yes|http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=1943-2631 Free Access

In 1938 (and 1941 ) RHOADES reported the case of a mutational event controlled by a specific intranuclear factor (the Dotted gene) which causes the recessive a, allele to mutate to the dominant form A,. Since then additional evidence for specific genic controllers of mutation has been reported by MCCLINTOCK (1950, 1951 ) and BRINK and NILAN (1952). Their work has shown that mutable genes are governed by accessory factors. These same factors are readily transferable to various locations in the genome and are able to regulate the time and rate of gene mutation. It was further shown that these factors of mutable systems can, when transposed, govern the action and mutability of other loci (MCCLINTOCK 1953). The current report is an analysis of the pale green mutable gene system and its various components. This system is similar in many ways to previously described systems and, in addition, there is evidence for an even closer relationship of component parts. An abstract of the material in this report has been presented by PETERSON (1953).


Text in English

0016-6731 1943-2631 (Online)

https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/45.1.115


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