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NASC ID: NW25

Name: agamous

ABRC stock number: CS25

Description: Flowering

Donation Date: 1991-06-01

Donated by:  Wageningen University Maarten Koornneef

Stock type: individual line

Material type: seed

Comment: The seed distributed for this stock is the product of heterozygote parental/s. This is due to the severity of homozygote phenotype.

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Available £11.00

Germplasm Info

Seed type: Single marker

Mutagen: ethylmethane sulfonate

Background: Ler

Segregation status: segregating

Growth requirement: none

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:
  • ag-1
  • AG

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Phenotype

Lacks pistils and stamens, homeotic transformation of stamens to petals and a new flower arises in place of the gynoecium; double flowers, maintained as heterozygote.

References

Drews, G.N., Bowman, J.L. & Meyerowitz, E.M. 1991. Negative regulation of the Arabidopsis homeotic gene AGAMOUS by the APETALA2 product. Cell 65(6):991-1002. PubMed ID: 1675158.