Article
Ac induces homologous recombination at the maize P locus.
Genetics - 1 May 1991
Athma P, Peterson T
Abstract excerpt
The maize P gene conditions red phlobaphene pigmentation to the pericarp and cob. Starting from two unstable P alleles which carry insertions of the transposable element Ac, we have derived 51 P null alleles; 47 of the 51 null alleles have a 17-kb deletion which removes the 4.5-kb Ac element and 12.5 kb of P sequences flanking both sides of Ac. The deletion endpoints lie within two 5.2-kb homologous direct...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Chromosome Deletion
- DNA
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Pigmentation
- Recombination, Genetic
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Restriction Mapping