Article
Paramutation alters regulatory control of the maize pl locus.
Genetics - 1 Apr 2000
Hollick J B, Patterson G I, Asmundsson I M, Chandler V L
Abstract excerpt
The maize purple plant (pl) locus encodes a transcription factor required for anthocyanin pigment synthesis in vegetative and floral tissues. The strongly expressed Pl-Rhoades (Pl-Rh) allele is unstable, spontaneously changing to weaker expression states (Pl') at low frequencies and exclusively changing to Pl' in Pl'/Pl-Rh heterozygotes. The weakly expressed Pl' state is mitotically and meiotically stable, yet...
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