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The wrinkled-seed character of pea described by Mendel is caused by a transposon-like insertion in a gene encoding starch-branching enzyme.
Cell - 12 Jan 1990
Bhattacharyya M K, Smith A M, Ellis T H, Hedley C, Martin C
Abstract excerpt
We describe the cloning of the r (rugosus) locus of pea (Pisum sativum L.), which determines whether the seed is round or wrinkled. Wrinkled (rr) seeds lack one isoform of starch-branching enzyme (SBEI), present in round (RR or Rr) seeds. A major polymorphism in the SBEI gene between near-isogeni...
Topics
- 1,4-alpha-Glucan Branching Enzyme
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- DNA
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Fabaceae
- Genes, Plant
- Genetic Linkage
- Glucosyltransferases
- Immune Sera
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Plants, Medicinal
- Restriction Mapping
- Seeds