摘要
A spontaneously occurring rice (Oryza sativa L.) mutant, characterized by homeotic conversionin glumes and stamens, was found in the progeny of a cross. The mutant showed long glumes andglumaceous lodicules and morphological transformation of stamens into pistils. Mutant floretsconsisted of 1 to 3 completely developed pistils, some pistilloid stamens with filaments, buttipped by bulged tissue and 0 to 3 stigmas. It seems that the mutant phenotype of the homeoticconversions in glumes and stamens is similar to that of the B loss-of-function mutants inArabidopsis and Antirrhinum. The mutant is controlled by a single recessive gene as asegregation ratio of 3:1 (wild type to mutant plants) was observed in the F2 generation.
A spontaneously occurring rice (Oryza sativa L.) mutant, characterized by homeotic conversionin glumes and stamens, was found in the progeny of a cross. The mutant showed long glumes andglumaceous lodicules and morphological transformation of stamens into pistils. Mutant floretsconsisted of 1 to 3 completely developed pistils, some pistilloid stamens with filaments, buttipped by bulged tissue and 0 to 3 stigmas. It seems that the mutant phenotype of the homeoticconversions in glumes and stamens is similar to that of the B loss-of-function mutants inArabidopsis and Antirrhinum. The mutant is controlled by a single recessive gene as asegregation ratio of 3:1 (wild type to mutant plants) was observed in the F2 generation.
