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

Authors

R. R. Ronnenkamp
H. J. Gorz
Francis A. Haskins, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

4-1975

Comments

Published in CROP SCIENCE, VOL. 15, MARCH-APRIL 1975.

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, ch₈ and ch₅, ch₈ and ch₆, and ch₈ and ch₇.