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The Behaviour of a Protein-Rich Pisum Mutant in Crossing Experiments

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Seed Proteins

Part of the book series: Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology ((AABI,volume 2))

Abstract

A low-yielding Pisum mutant with increased protein content of the seed meal was crossed with a high-yielding fasciated mutant with normal protein content. Because of the large number of mutant genes involved (about 20), highly heterozygous F1 hybrids arose giving rise to complicated segregations in their progenies. Twenty four recombinant lines were studied with regard to their protein production. A mutant gene, designated as ipc, was found to be responsible for the increased protein content. Moreover, genes for green flower colour, lateness and tallness are present in the mutant.

In five recombinants, the protein production per plant exceeded that of the high-yielding parental mutant and the mother variety considerably. In four of them, this was due to the strongly increased seed production; gene ipc is obviously not present in their genomes. The fifth one contains ipc contributing to the favourable protein yield. In three other recombinants, ipc is present, but it does hardly improve their protein production because of the extremely low seed yield.

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Gottschalk, W., Wolff, G. (1983). The Behaviour of a Protein-Rich Pisum Mutant in Crossing Experiments. In: Gottschalk, W., Müller, H.P. (eds) Seed Proteins. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6801-1_13

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