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Genetic Control of Alkaloid Production

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In 1865, J. G. Mendel, an abbot in an Augustinian monastery in Brno, now in Czechoslovakia, published a paper on the inheritance of certain morphological characters in the pea, Pisum sativum (Peters, 1959). One of these was a chemical character; while crossing red and white flowering peas, Mendel actually crossed varieties with and without the ability to synthesize the red flower pigment known as anthocyanidin. The ability to synthesize the pigment was a dominant trait, thus presenting the first proved example of the inheritance of a chemical character. It was significant that the trait was dominant. A lapse of eighty years occurred before the rules governing the inheritance of chemical characters were properly understood. In the meantime, hundreds of new examples were added, and in most cases the genetic transmission of the chemical character was a dominant trait (Nowacki, 1964a,b, 1968).

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Waller, G.R., Nowacki, E.K. (1978). Genetic Control of Alkaloid Production. In: Alkaloid Biology and Metabolism in Plants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0772-3_2

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