Article
Mutations in the Arabidopsis gene IMMUTANS cause a variegated phenotype by inactivating a chloroplast terminal oxidase associated with phytoene desaturation.
The Plant cell - 1 Jan 1999
Carol P, Stevenson D, Bisanz C, Breitenbach J, Sandmann G, Mache R, Coupland G, Kuntz M
Abstract excerpt
The immutans (im) mutant of Arabidopsis shows a variegated phenotype comprising albino and green somatic sectors. We have cloned the IM gene by transposon tagging and show that even stable null alleles give rise to a variegated phenotype. The gene product has amino acid similarity to the mitochon...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Carotenoids
- Chloroplasts
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Nuclear Proteins
- Oxidoreductases
- Phenotype
- Pigmentation
- Sequence Alignment