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Characteristics and Inheritance of Seed-Ageing Induced Mutations in Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0523.1989.tb01260.x
 
Title Characteristics and Inheritance of Seed-Ageing Induced Mutations in Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)
 
Creator Rao, N K
Roberts, H
 
Subject Oil seeds
 
Description Mutations affecting qualitative traits were induced by seed ageing in lettuce. The mutant plants were isolated in the A2 generation and included chlorophyll-deficient types (chlorotica, lutescens, chlorina-virescens, luteo and viridalbo maculate), and morphological variants (dwarf and narrow, thick and curly leaf types). The leaf mutants were found to be either partially or completely sterile. Segregation pattern of the mutants in A3 generation showed that, except for the maculata types, all chlorophyll deficiencies and the dwarf mutant are controlled by single recessive nuclear genes. The genetic status of the leaf mutants was not clear, due to possible pleiotropic effect of the mutant genes in inducing gametophytic sterility. The maculata mutants exhibited sorting out of the normal and chlorophyll deficient regions during vegetative development and segregated for different degrees of chlorophyll deficiency in selfed progenies. The maculata mutants probably originated by plastome mutations induced by nuclear mutator genes
 
Publisher Blackwell Publishing
 
Date 1989
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7750/1/PB_102_4_306-310_1989.pdf
Rao, N K and Roberts, H (1989) Characteristics and Inheritance of Seed-Ageing Induced Mutations in Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). Plant Breeding, 102 (4). pp. 306-310. ISSN 0179-9541