An Inborn Error of Potassium Metabolism in the Tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 62 (4) , 582-585
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.62.4.582
Abstract
A mutant of the tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) was obtained through treatment of the seed with ethyl methane sulfonate. Its chief distinguishing characteristic is the requirement for an extraordinarily high K concentration in the medium (20 mm) if it is to develop without pronounced K deficiency symptoms, while the wild type grows without any such symptoms at 0.1 to 0.2 mm K. The lesion of the K-inefficient mutant does not lie in its inability to absorb and translocate K.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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