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A cadmium-sensitive, glutathione-deficient mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant physiology - 1 Apr 1995
Howden R, Andersen C R, Goldsbrough P B, Cobbett C S
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The roots of the cadmium-sensitive mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, cad1-1, become brown in the presence of cadmium. A new cadmium-sensitive mutant affected at a second locus, cad2, has been identified using this phenotype. Genetic analysis has grown that the sensitive phenotype is recessive to the wild type and segregates as a single Mendelian locus. Assays of cadmium accumulation by intact plants indicated that...
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