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Genetic instability of loci affecting a directly observable property such as pigmentation or morphology is often responsible for the variegated appearance of many plant parts. Variegated plants of this kind can frequently produce phenotypically wild-type or nearly wild-type progeny due to reversion of the mutable allele in germinal tissue. In Antirrhinum majus, a large number of stable and unstable mutants have been isolated and genetically characterized, mainly in the first four decades of this century (for a compilation see Ref. 15,19).
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Sommer, H., Hehl, R., Krebbers, E., Piotrowiak, R., Lönnig, WE., Saedler, H. (1988). Transposable Elements of Antirrhinum Majus . In: Nelson, O., Wilson, C.M., Saslaw, C.G. (eds) Plant Transposable Elements. Basic Life Sciences, vol 47. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5550-2_16
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