Towards the Albino Mutant Gene in Malus × Domestica Borkh.
Guodong Zhao, Yang Li, Linguang Jia, Dongmei Chen, Chaohong Zhang, Xinsheng Zhang, Fengqiu Yang, Tongsheng Zhao · 2024
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Description
Albino seedlings, which lack green pigment, appear often in apple breeding but usually die soon after sprouting. Guodong Zhao and co-authors study a rare spontaneous albino mutant found on a Fuji apple tree. After grafting, the mutant produced pale greenish-white shoots that stayed slender and fragile.
The team resequenced the mutant's genome and compared it with the normal tree. They cataloged millions of small DNA differences and tens of thousands of larger structural changes. About 5,700 genes carried changes in their coding parts, and attention fell on a gene related to a known albino gene in other plants. The authors say the variant list is a starting map for finding the gene behind apple albinism.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Guodong Zhao, Yang Li, Linguang Jia, Dongmei Chen, Chaohong Zhang, Xinsheng Zhang, Fengqiu Yang, Tongsheng Zhao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |