Article
Plant mitochondrial mutations and male sterility.
Annual review of genetics - 1 Jan 1991
Hanson M R
Abstract excerpt
A characteristic of CMS mutations in plants, in contrast to the single base changes in human mitochondrial mutants (49, 140), is the presence of chimeric genes or chimeric loci; different open reading frames are joined together, or placed in proximal locations and cotranscribed with standard mito...
Topics
- Agriculture
- Cytoplasm
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genes, Plant
- Infertility
- Mutation
- Plant Proteins
- Plants
- Pollen
- Zea mays