Chemically induced somatic mutations in Arabidopsis
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Spectrum of chemically induced mutations from a large-scale reverse-genetic screen in Arabidopsis.
Chemical mutagenesis has been the workhorse of traditional genetics, but it has not been possible to determine underlying rates or distributions of mutations from phenotypic screens. However, reverse-genetic screens can be used to provide an unbiased ascertainment of mutation statistics. Here we report a comprehensive analysis of approximately 1900 ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS)-induced mutations...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hereditas
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0018-0661
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1972.tb01056.x