Appearance of flower variegation in the mutable speckled line of the Japanese morning glory is controlled by two genetic elements

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 57-62

  Abe, Yukihide ^a   Hoshino, Atsushi ^b,c   Iida, Shigeru ^b,c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PLANT; REGULATOR GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

COROLLA; IPOMOEA;

EID: 0030841666     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.72.57     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Beld, M., Martin, C., Huits, H., Stuitje, A.R., and Gerats, A.G.M. (1989) Flavonoid synthesis in Petunia hybrida: Partial characterization of dehydroflavonol-4-reductase gene. Plant Mol. Biol. 13, 491-502.
2. Cox, K.H. and Goldberg R.B. (1988) Analysis of plant gene expression. In: Plant Molecular Biology: A Practical Approach (ed.: C. H. Shaw), pp. 1-35. IRL Press, Oxford.
3. Dooner, H.K., Robbins, T.P., and Jorgensen, R.A. (1991) Genetic and developmental control of anthocyanin biosynthesis. Annu. Rev. Genet. 25, 173-199.
4. Fedoroff, N.V. (1989) Maize transposable elements. In: Mobile DNA (eds.: D.E. Berg and M.M. Howe), pp. 375-411. American Society for Microbiology, Washington DC.
5. Forkmann, G. (1993) Genetics of flavonoids. In: The Flavonoids (ed.: J.B. Harborne), pp. 537-564. Chapman & Hall, London.
6. Hagiwara, T. (1956) Genes and chromosome maps in the Japanese morning glory. Bull. Res. Coll. Agric. Vet. Sci. Nihon Univ. 5, 34-56.
7. Hagiwara, T. (1977) Genes and linkage map of Japanese morning glory. In: Plant Genetics IV (eds.: H. Kihara and H. Yamaguchi), pp. 482-501. Shokabo, Tokyo, (in Japanese).
8. Hoshino, A., Inagaki, Y., and Iida, S. (1995) Structural analysis of Tpn1, a transposable element isolated from Japanese morning glory bearing variegated flowers. Mol. Gene. Genet. 247, 114-117.
9. Inagaki, Y., Hisatomi, Y., Suzuki, T., Kasahara, K., and Iida, S. (1994) Isolation of a Suppressor-mutator/Enhancer-like transposable element, Tpn1, from Japanese morning glory bearing variegated flowers. Plant Cell 6, 375-383.
10. Inagaki, Y., Hisatomi, Y., and Iida, S. (1996) Somatic mutations caused by excision of the transposable element, Tpn1, from the DFR gene for pigmentation in sub-epidermal layer of periclinally chimeric flowers of Japanese morning glory and their germinal transmission to their progeny. Theor. Appl. Genet. 92, 499-504.
11. Imai, Y. (1929) Linkage groups of the Japanese morning glory. Genetics 14, 223-255.
12. Imai, Y. (1931) Analysis of flower color in Pharbitis nil. J. Genet. 24, 203-224.
13. Imai, Y. (1934) On the mutable genes of Pharbitis, with special reference to their bearing on the mechanism of bud-variegation. J. Coll. Agric. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 12, 479-523.
14. Imai, Y. (1938) The genes of the Japanese morning glory. Jpn. J. Genet. 14, 24-33.
15. Martin, C. and Gerats, T. (1993) The control of flower coloration. In: The Molecular Biology of Flowering (ed.: B.R. Jordan), pp. 219-255. C.A.B. International, Wallingford, Oxon.
16. Masson, P., Surosky, R., Kingsbury, J.A., and Fedoroff, N.V. (1987) Genetic and molecular analysis of the Spm-dependent a-m2 alleles of the maize a locus. Genetics 177, 117-137.
17. 0 ATP synthase from the sweet potato. J. Biol. Chem. 268, 17205-17210.
18. Nevers, P., Shepherd, N.S., and Saedler, H. (1986) Plant transposable elements. Adv. Bot. Res. 12, 103-203.
19. Saedler, H. and Gierl, A. (1996) Transposable Element. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
20. Saito, N., Cheng, J., Ichimura, M., Yokoi, M., Abe, Y., and Honda T. (1994) Flavonoids in the acyanic flowers of Pharbitis nil. Phytochemistry 35, 687-691.
21. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F., and Maniatis, T. (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Lab., Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
22. Yoneda, Y. and Takenaka, Y. (1981) Colored Illustrations of Japanese Morning Glory (Gensyoku Asagao Kensaku Zukan), New ed. Hokuryukan Publ. Co., Tokyo, (in Japanese).