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Characteristics and Inheritance of Seed‐Ageing Induced Mutations in Lettuce ( Lactuca sativa L.)
Author(s) -
Rao N. K.,
Roberts E. H.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
plant breeding
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.583
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1439-0523
pISSN - 0179-9541
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0523.1989.tb01260.x
Subject(s) - biology , mutant , lactuca , sterility , nuclear gene , chlorophyll , botany , genetics , gene , genome
Mutations affecting qualitative traits were induced by seed ageing in lettuce. The mutant plants were isolated in the A 2 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 A 3 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.