The spontaneous chlorophyll mutation frequency in barley

Jørgen Helms Jørgensen, Hans Peter Jensen

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    Abstract

    A total of 1866 barley plants were progeny tested in the greenhouse. Twenty-five plants segregated for newly arisen, spontaneous chlorophyll mutant genes. Among the total of 470,129 seedlings screened there were 79 mutants (1.7 .+-. 0.6 .times. 10-4). The data are added to data from three similar materials and the resulting estimate of the chlorophyll mutant frequency is 1.6 .times. 10-4 in about 1.43 million seedlings. The estimate of the chlorophyll mutation rate per generation is close to 67.3 .times. 10-4 per diploid genome or in the order of 6 .times. 10-7 per locus and haploid genome.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalHereditas (Print)
    Volume105
    Issue number1
    Pages (from-to)71-72
    ISSN0018-0661
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1986

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