Far-red light-insensitive, phytochrome A-deficient mutants of tomato.

doi:10.1007/BF00294675

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Far-red light-insensitive, phytochrome A-deficient mutants of tomato.

Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 20 Jan 1995

van Tuinen A, Kerckhoffs L H, Nagatani A, Kendrick R E, Koornneef M

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We have selected two recessive mutants of tomato with slightly longer hypocotyls than the wild type, one under low fluence rate (3 mumol/m2/s) red light (R) and the other under low fluence rate blue light. These two mutants were shown to be allelic and further analysis revealed that hypocotyl gro...

Topics

Chromosome Mapping
Darkness
Light
Solanum lycopersicum
Mutation
Phenotype
Photoperiod
Phytochrome
Phytochrome A
Plant Shoots
Seeds
Spectrophotometry

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