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The maize mutant narrow sheath fails to establish leaf margin identity in a meristematic domain.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jun 1996
Scanlon M J, Schneeberger R G, Freeling M
Abstract excerpt
The maize mutant narrow sheath (ns) displays a leaf shape and plant stature phenotype that suggests the preprimordial deletion of a leaf domain. The ns mutant phenotype is inherited as a recessive, duplicate-factor trait, conditioned upon homozygosity for each of the two unlinked mutations narrow sheath-1 (ns1) and narrow sheath-2 (ns2). Mutant leaves are missing a large domain including the leaf margin, and...
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