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NASC ID: N276

Name: PETAL LOSS

ABRC stock number: CS276

Description: Form, flowering

Donation Date: 2000-03-03

Donated by:  Monash University David Smyth

Stock type: individual line

Material type: seed

Status Price (£)
Available £11.00

Germplasm Info

Seed type: Mutant

Mutagen: ethylmethane sulfonate

Background: Col-3(N908)

Segregation: No

Associated Polymorphisms

When available, select a locus to display it at the AIP or view the EMBL record at the EBI.

Gene: Allele: Locus: AGI code:
  • ptl-1
  • PTL

Phenotype

Number of petals per flower reduced, number falls acropetally from 2-3 per flower to 0 in later flowers, fewer petals produced at higher temperatures, petals often distorted in shape or trumpet-shaped, petals often oriented sideways or reversed, sepals deeper in profile, occasionally slightly carpelloid.

References

Griffith, M.E., da Silva Conceição, A. & Smyth,D.R. 1999. PETAL LOSS gene regulates initiation and orientation of second whorl organs in the Arabidopsis flower. Development 126(24): 5635-44. PubMed ID: 10572040.