Open AccessA Toxic Mutator and Selection Alternative to the Non-Mendelian RNA Cache Hypothesis for hothead Reversion
Author(s) -
Luca Comai,
Reed A. Cartwright
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.105.036293
Subject(s) - reversion , biology , genetics , mutant , mendelian inheritance , gene , arabidopsis thaliana , allele , mutation , phenotype
Lolle and colleagues observed frequent true reversion of hothead ( hth ) mutations of Arabidopsis thaliana , whereby up to 10% of the progeny of self-pollinated homozygous hth/hth mutants carried a grandparental HTH allele ([Lolle et al., 2005][1]). Instability was not limited to the HTH gene: hth
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