| Literature DB >> 17272856 |
Grzegorz Bartoszewski1, Michael J Havey, Agnieszka Ziółkowska, Marek Długosz, Stefan Malepszy.
Abstract
Mosaic (MSC) mutants of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) appear after passage through cell cultures. The MSC phenotype shows paternal transmission and is associated with mitochondrial DNA rearrangements. This review describes the origins and phenotypes of independently produced MSC mutants of cucumber, including current knowledge on their mitochondrial DNA rearrangements, and similarities of MSC with other plant mitochondrial mutants. Finally we propose that passage of cucumber through cell culture can be used as a unique and efficient method to generate mitochondrial mutants of a higher plant in a highly homozygous nuclear background.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17272856 DOI: 10.1007/BF03194652
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Appl Genet ISSN: 1234-1983 Impact factor: 2.653