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Analysis of the autonomy of maize dwarf 1 action in genetic mosaics
1Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
Abstract:
Genetic mosaic maize plants that contained dwarf1 sectors in otherwise normal plants were analyzed. The analysis of dwarf1 sector growth relative to the surrounding wild-type tissue should test the hypothesis that Dwarf1 controls the production of a diffusible factor. Maize dwarf1 sectors did not show altered growth relative to the surrounding tissue, indicating that Dwarf1 controls the production of a diffusible factor. As Dwarf1 has been proposed to control the conversion of GA20 to biologically active GA1, these results suggest that GA, itself is the diffusible factor.
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