A POLLEN SELECTION SYSTEM FOR ALCOHOL-DEHYDROGENASE-NEGATIVE MUTANTS IN PLANTS
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- 15 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 83 (1) , 63-65
- https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/83.1.63
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.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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