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We reported earlier the recovery of two classes of soybean urease mutants in soybean (Glycine max L. Merr. cv. Williams). Class I mutants lack the embryo-specific urease while class II mutants lack the activities of both urease isozymes, the embryo-specific and the ubiquitous urease, the latter found in all tissues examined. We report here the recovery of a true-breeding mutant, aj3, which represents the third phenotypic class: normal levels of embryo-specific urease and little or no ubiquitous urease. Unlike class II mutant plants which lack urease in all tissue, aj3 lacks urease activity only in leaves (ca. 2% normal activity); its roots have near normal urease activity. Callus derived from leaves of aj3 has 14% to 40% the urease activity of Williams 82 callus. This partial reduction in urease activity in aj3 callus is sufficient to reduce growth with urea as sole nitrogen source and to confer resistance to 50 mM urea added to callus maintenance medium. Leaves of aj3 produce more than 40 times the urease antigen expected from their urease activity. The aj3 trait is due to a single recessive lesion which is not allelic with lesions at theEu2, Eu3 (class II) orEu1 (class I) loci. We designate the aj3 genotype aseu4/eu4.
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Abbreviations
- ABTS:
-
2,2′-azino-di[3-ethylbenzthiazolinesulfonic acid] diammonium salt
- BSA:
-
bovine serum albumin
- ELISA:
-
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
- EMS:
-
ethyl methanesulfonate
- MS:
-
Murashige and Skoog medium
- NMU:
-
N-methyl nitrosourea
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Polacco, J.C., Judd, A.K., Dybing, J.K. et al. A new mutant class of soybean lacks urease in leaves but not in leaf-derived callus or in roots. Molec. Gen. Genet. 217, 257–262 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02464890
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