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The electrophoretic patterns of esterase (E-1), alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), and glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) isozymes were studied in two Spanish populations of the lily Scilla autumnalis with B-chromosome carrying individuals. The E-1 isozyme activity appears only in those individuals with B-chromosomes. None of the bulbs free of B's show it. Five bulbs, mosaic for B-content, were identified. Electrophoretic analysis shows that these bulbs are characterised by mosaicism for E-1 isozyme activity. An analysis of individual roots by both electrophoretic and cytological methods shows that tissue mosaicism for B-content correlates with tissue mosaicism for E-1 isozyme activity. The electrophoretic analysis of different roots from bulbs heterozygous for the Est-1 locus indicates that the structural gene for E-1 is not located on the B-chromosome itself. Rather there is a derepressor effect of Bs on E-1 isozyme activity. Since ADH and GOT patterns are unaffected by the presence of B-chromosomes it is clear that they do not exhibit a generalised derepressor effect.
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Oliver, J.L., Posse, F., Martinez-Zapater, J.M. et al. B-Chromosomes and E-1 isozyme activity in mosaic bulbs of Scilla autumnalis (Liliaceae). Chromosoma 85, 399–403 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00330362
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