A Pollen Selection System for Alcohol-Dehydrogenase-Negative Mutants in Plants

Authors

Drew Schwartz, Indiana UniversityFollow
John Osterman, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1976

Citation

Genetics 83: 63-65 May, 1976.

Comments

Copyright © 1976 Genetics Society of America

Abstract

Exposure of freshly shed maize pollen to allyl alcohol vapors allows selective fertilization by mutant alcohol-dehydrogenase-negative grains. Wild-type pollen grains are killed by the enzymatic conversion of allyl alcohol to the highly toxic acrylaldehyde.