Article
Variegation patterns caused by excision of the maize transposable element Dissociation (Ds) are autonomously regulated by allele-specific Activator (Ac) elements and are not due to trans-acting modifier genes.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 6 Jan 1995
Heinlein M
Abstract excerpt
The Ac elements present in the unstable wx-m7 and wx-m9 alleles of maize trigger different patterns of Ds excision in trans. To determine whether this differential regulation is a feature of the Ac alleles themselves or is mediated by genetically distinct factors, maize plants heterozygous for th...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA Primers
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Nucleotidyltransferases
- Phenotype
- Plant Proteins
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Seeds
- Suppression, Genetic
- Trans-Activators
- Transposases