Genetic Studies of Induced Mutants in Melilotus alba. IV. Inheritance and Complementation of Six Additional Chlorophyll-deficient Mutants

Authors

R. R. Ronnenkamp, Purdue University
Herman J. Gorz, United States Department of Agriculture
Francis A. Haskins, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-1975

Comments

Published in Crop Science (March-April 1975) v. 15: 187-188.

Abstract

Six ethyl methanesulfonate-induced chlorophyll-deficient mutants of Melilotus alba Desr. were studied. Each of the mutants behaved as a monogenic recessive. Complementation analysis revealed that the genes from five of the mutants were nonallelic to each other and to the previously reported mutants ch₄, ch₅, ch₆, and ch₇. Proposed symbols for the five genes are ch₈, ch₉, ch₁₀, ch₁₁, and ch₁₂. No linkage was detected between ch₅ and ch₇, ch₇, and M_f, (multifoliolate leaf), ch₈ and ch₄, ch_{8 and ch5, ch8 and ch6, and ch8 and ch7.}