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The multiple-cluster mutation complex in mutagenesis with higher plants

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After treatment of dry and pre-soaked seeds of barley with gamma-rays, EMS, NEU and EI, the frequency of multiple mutations (multimutations) was higher with EMS and NEU treatment, while cluster mutations appeared in greater numbers following treatment with gamma rays and NEU. Pre-soaking the seeds led to a reduction in the frequency of total mutations, cluster mutations and multimutations. This has been explained as a result of the application of lower doses and the induction of mutations at a relatively later stage in ontogenetic development in the case of pre-soaked seeds.

Some new mutation types in barley have been described and some of the old types have been given names representing the mutation characters more precisely.

The compound mutation frequency of different seedling mutation types, when taken separately, was found to be independent of the mutagen employed and the stage of treatment. The size of mutated chimeras in M 1 plants, as indicated by the segregation ratio of mutants in M 2, was largest in albina, xantha, chlorina, albina-tigrina, chl-terminalis and eceriferum, and lowest in viridis, viridoalbina etc. This could be expected if the unstable premutations induced by mutagenic treatment are resolved into mutations at different intervals after their initiation, or it can be explained by the induction of dominant mutations, or lethal changes together with visible mutations.

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Sharma, B., Bansal, H.C. The multiple-cluster mutation complex in mutagenesis with higher plants. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 42, 25–31 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00306074

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