Sectors of liguleless-1 tissue interrupt an inductive signal during maize leaf development.

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Sectors of liguleless-1 tissue interrupt an inductive signal during maize leaf development.

The Plant cell - 1 Aug 1991

Becraft P W, Freeling M

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The ligule and auricles separate the blade and sheath of normal maize leaves and are absent in liguleless-1 (lg1) mutant leaves. We induced chromosome breakage using X-rays to create plants genetically mosaic for lg1. In genetically mosaic leaves, when an lg1 mutant sector interrupts the normal l...

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Cell Communication
Mosaicism
Mutation
Zea mays

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