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Direct selection for paternal inheritance of chloroplasts in sexual progeny of Nicotiana.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Feb 1991
Avni A, Edelman M
Abstract excerpt
The response of Nicotiana tabacum to tentoxin (chlorosis) is inherited with chloroplasts. N. tabacum var. Xanthi, a tentoxin-resistant line, was used to pollinate tentoxin-sensitive N. tabacum line 92, an alloplasmic male-sterile line containing N. undulata plastids. The seeds were mutagenized with nitrosomethylurea and germinated in the presence of tentoxin. Two percent of the seedlings had green sectors in...
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