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A paramutation phenomenon is involved in the genetics of maize low phytic acid1-241 (lpa1-241) trait.
Heredity - 1 Mar 2009
Pilu R, Panzeri D, Cassani E, Cerino Badone F, Landoni M, Nielsen E
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So far, in maize, three classes of mutants involved in phytic acid biosynthesis have been isolated: lpa1, lpa2 and lpa3. In 2007, a gene tagging experiment performed by Shi et al. found that mutations in ZmMRP4 (multidrug resistance-associated proteins 4) gene cause lpa1 phenotype. In previous studies, we isolated and described a single recessive lpa mutation (originally named lpa241), which was allelic to the...
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