The Antirrhinum genus has a considerable complexity in the scent profiles produced by different species. We have analyzed the genetic differences between A. majus and A. linkianum, two species divergent in the emission of methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, acetophenone, and ocimene. The genetic analysis showed that all compounds segregated in a Mendelian fashion attributable to one or two loci ...

AIMS This study was designed to compare levels of genetic variation and its partitioning in three related species of Antirrhinum, A. subbaeticum, A. pertegasii and A. pulverulentum, and to check the hypothesis that species with small total population size have lower levels of genetic variability than those with bigger ones. This information should contribute to the development of conservation s...

An improved spectrophotometric method for the determination of lipoxidase activity was developed and applied in studies of the purified enzyme and crude enzyme preparations from leguminous seeds, with linoleic acid solubilized in Tween 20 as the substrate. The optimum pH was found to be 7.0, 6.5, 6.0, and 5.5, for purified soybean lipoxidase and for the crude lipoxidases extracted from gram flo...

Severa1 homeotic genes that are involved in floral differentiation have recently been isolated and characterized from Antirrhinum majus and Arabidopsis thaliana (Sommer et al., 1990; Yanofsky et al., 1990). Based on genetic and molecular studies, a model has been proposed to explain the roles of different homeotic genes in the specification of floral organ identity (Bowman et al., 1991). To see...

The asymmetric shape of the Antirrhinum corolla is determined by genes acting differentially along the dorsoventral axis of the flower. Genes so far identified determine asymmetry by acting in dorsal regions. We describe a gene, divaricata, which in contrast to previously identified genes acts in ventral regions of the flower. We show by the analysis of mutant combinations that the divaricata g...

Muriel Wheldale Onslow studied flowers in England with genetic and biochemical techniques in the early twentieth century. Working with geneticist William Bateson [4], Onslow used Mendelian principles and biochemical analysis together to understand the inheritance of flower colors at the beginning of the twentieth century. Onslow's study of snapdragons, or Antirrhinum majus [5], resulted in her ...