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Molecular characterization of a mutable pigmentation phenotype and isolation of the first active transposable element from Sorghum bicolor.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Dec 1999
Chopra S, Brendel V, Zhang J, Axtell J D, Peterson T
Abstract excerpt
Accumulation of red phlobaphene pigments in sorghum grain pericarp is under the control of the Y gene. A mutable allele of Y, designated as y-cs (y-candystripe), produces a variegated pericarp phenotype. Using probes from the maize p1 gene that cross-hybridize with the sorghum Y gene, we isolated the y-cs allele containing a large insertion element. Our results show that the Y gene is a member of the...
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