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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1976
Citation
Genetics 83: 63-65 May, 1976.
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.
Comments
Copyright © 1976 Genetics Society of America