Molecular analysis of an aurea photosynthetic mutant (Su/Su) in tobacco: LHCP depletion leads to pleiotropic mutant phenotypes.

Abstract excerpt

Su is a nuclear encoded, semi-dominant aurea mutation in Nicotiana tabacum L. The homozygous plants (Su/Su) are pale yellow and non-photosynthetic while the heterozygous (Su/+) are photosynthetically competent and have a yellow-green phenotype which is distinct from that of green wild-type plants (+/+). We have examined the RNA and protein levels for a number of nuclear and plastid encoded chloroplast proteins...

Topics

• Genes, Plant
• Heterozygote
• Homozygote
• Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Photosynthesis
• Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins
• Plant Proteins
• Plants, Toxic
• Nicotiana