Article
Brown-midrib maize (bm1)--a mutation affecting the cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase gene.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jun 1998
Halpin C, Holt K, Chojecki J, Oliver D, Chabbert B, Monties B, Edwards K, Barakate A, Foxon G A
Abstract excerpt
Brown-midrib (bm) mutants of maize have modified lignin of reddish-brown colour. Although four independent bm loci are known, only one of the mutant genes has been previously identified. We report here that maize bm1, one of the less characterised mutants, shows severely reduced CAD activity in l...
Topics
- Alcohol Oxidoreductases
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- Color
- DNA, Complementary
- Lignin
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Recombinant Proteins
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Zea mays