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Painted flowers: Eluta generates pigment patterning in Antirrhinum.
The New phytologist - 1 Jul 2024
Moss Sarah M A, Zhou Yanfei, Butelli Eugenio, Waite Chethi N, Yeh Shin-Mei, Cordiner Sarah B, Harris Nilangani N, Copsey Lucy, Schwinn Kathy E, Davies Kevin M, Hudson Andrew, Martin Cathie, Albert Nick W
Abstract excerpt
In the early 1900s, Erwin Baur established Antirrhinum majus as a model system, identifying and characterising numerous flower colour variants. This included Picturatum/Eluta, which restricts the accumulation of magenta anthocyanin pigments, forming bullseye markings on the flower face. We identified the gene underlying the Eluta locus by transposon-tagging, using an Antirrhinum line that spontaneously lost the...
Topics
- Antirrhinum
- Flowers
- Pigmentation
- Plant Proteins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Anthocyanins
- Phenotype
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Genes, Plant
- Nicotiana
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Alleles