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Ds-INDUCED ALLELES AT THE OPAQUE-2 LOCUS OF MAIZE
Mario Motto 1, Renzo Marotta 2, Natale Di Fonzo 1, Carlo Soave 2, and Francesco Salamini 1
1 Istituto Sperimentale per la Cerealicoltura, Sezione di Bergamo,
Via Stezzano 24, 24100 Bergamo, Italy
2 Istituto Biosintesi Vegetali, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche,
Via Bassini 15, 20133 Milano, Italy
Transposon mutagenesis has been used to isolate mutable alleles at the Opaque-2 (O2) locus of maize. Plants with the Activator-Dissociation (Ac-Ds) system of transposable elements and O2 were crossed as males to a stable o2 tester line. Among a population of 200,000 kernels, 198 exceptional kernels with somatic instability were recovered. In four cases, designated O2-m1, o2-m2, O2-m3 and O2-m4, variegated phenotypes appeared in F2 and subsequent generations. Genetic analyses indicated that the presence of Ds near or within the O2 gene was responsible for the observed somatic instability at the O2 locus. The phenotypes of the newly induced alleles were of two types. Alleles O2-m1, O2-m3 and O2-m4, in the absence of Ac, were characterized by kernel phenotypes indistinguishable from the wild type; in the presence of Ac they generated kernels with opaque sectors interspersed within a vitreous background. In contrast, the mutable allele o2-m2, in the absence of Ac, was characterized by kernels with a recessive phenotype similar to o2 recessive mutants. In the presence of Ac, it reverted somatically to wild-type-producing kernels with vitreous spots in an o2 background. The association of the Ds element with the O2 locus may prove a valuable tool directed to the isolation of DNA fragments bearing the O2 gene.
Submitted on April 2, 1985Accepted on September 24, 1985
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