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Isolating an active and inactive CACTA transposon from lettuce color mutants and characterizing their family.
Plant physiology - 11 Jun 2021
Gurdon Csanad, Kozik Alexander, Tao Rong, Poulev Alexander, Armas Isabel, Michelmore Richard W, Raskin Ilya
Abstract excerpt
Dietary flavonoids play an important role in human nutrition and health. Flavonoid biosynthesis genes have recently been identified in lettuce (Lactuca sativa); however, few mutants have been characterized. We now report the causative mutations in Green Super Lettuce (GSL), a natural light green mutant derived from red cultivar NAR; and GSL-Dark Green (GSL-DG), an olive-green natural derivative of GSL. GSL...
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