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Characterization of the ABA-deficient tomato mutant notabilis and its relationship with maize Vp14.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Feb 1999
Burbidge A, Grieve T M, Jackson A, Thompson A, McCarty D R, Taylor I B
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The notabilis (not) mutant of tomato has a wilty phenotype due to a deficiency in the levels of the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA). The mutant appears to have a defect in a key control step in ABA biosynthesis--the oxidative cleavage of a 9-cis xanthophyll precursor to form the C15 intermediate, xanthoxin. A maize mutant, viviparous 14 (vp14) was recently obtained by transposon mutagenesis. This maize genetic...
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