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The homeotic Macho mutant of Antirrhinum majus reverts to wild-type or mutates to the homeotic plena phenotype.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Dec 1994
Lönnig W E, Saedler H
Abstract excerpt
Plants of Antirrhinum majus carrying the semidominant Macho alleles of the plena gene display carpelloid sepals and staminoid petals, but the two inner flower whorls of stamens and carpels are normal and produce fertile gametes. In the recessive plena mutant, in contrast, the two outer whorls are normal whereas the stamens are largely or entirely petaloid and the carpels sepaloid, thus producing weakly...
Topics
- Alleles
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Plant
- Genes, Homeobox
- Genes, Plant
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Plants