Article
Somatically heritable switches in the DNA modification of Mu transposable elements monitored with a suppressible mutant in maize.
Genes & development - 1 Mar 1990
Martienssen R, Barkan A, Taylor W C, Freeling M
Abstract excerpt
Many transposable elements in maize alternate between active and inactive phases associated with the modification of their DNA. Elements in an inactive phase lose their ability to transpose, their ability to excise from reporter alleles and, in some cases, their ability to enhance or suppress mutant phenotypes caused by their insertion. The maize mutant hcf106 is a recessive pale green seedling lethal caused by...
Topics
- Blotting, Southern
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Mosaicism
- Phenotype
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Suppression, Genetic
- Zea mays