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The Placement of Genes Using waxy-Marked Reciprocal Translocations

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The Maize Handbook

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In maize, translocations with breakpoints closely linked to endosperm marker genes have been employed in the placement of new genes to chromosome. A series of waxy-marked reciprocal translocations was developed by E. G. Anderson (1943, 1956). These translocation stocks are homozygous for the waxy (wx) gene and for a translocation having one of its breakpoints in chromosome 9 not far from the wx locus. The other breakpoints are distributed among the other nine chromosomes. Crossing-over is suppressed in the region of the translocation and this increases the efficiency of linkage detection. These translocation strains, along with B-A translocation stocks (Beckett 1978, 1990; this volume), have been widely used by maize geneticists to determine the chromosomal placement of unlocated genes.

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  1. John R. Laughnan
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  2. Susan Gabay-Laughnan
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  1. Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Michael Freeling

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Virginia Walbot

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Laughnan, J.R., Gabay-Laughnan, S. (1994). The Placement of Genes Using waxy-Marked Reciprocal Translocations. In: Freeling, M., Walbot, V. (eds) The Maize Handbook. Springer Lab Manuals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2694-9_29

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