On the Genetic Control of Mutability in Maize
- 1 March 1945
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 31 (3) , 91-95
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.31.3.91
Abstract
The Dt gene in maize, which is known only by its capacity to increase the mutability of the recessive a allele, was located by 4 point back-cross data. It is placed 7 cross-over units to the left of yg 2 in the short arm of chromosome 9 either in the thread-like chromatin strand or in the terminal knob. Examination of the published data on the genetic control of the mutation rate of the recessive a allele reveals that it cannot be accounted for in terms of factor interaction, epistasis and threshold values, but only by the mutable gene hypothesis.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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