Claim · model-written summary
The yellow sunflower mutant contains xanthophyll.
- Taxon
- Helianthus annuus
Helianthus annuust0 - Material
- yellow mutante6
- Outcome
- contains xanthophylle6
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Verbatim
t0“OF HELIANTHUS ANNUUS”
e6“The yellow mutant contains xanthophyll but no traces of carotene have been found”
Title
GENETIC HISTORY AND GENERAL COMPARISONS OF TWO ALBINO MUTATIONS OF HELIANTHUS ANNUUS
Raymond H. Wallace; Helen M. Habermann American Journal of Botany 1959. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1959.tb06998.x
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation A yellow mutation of sunflower arose in the F2 generation.
- Observation A white mutation of sunflower arose later, in the F5 generation.
- Observation Both pigment-deficient sunflower mutations are inherited as single recessive factors.
- Association Albino strains of sunflower form chlorophyll during seedling stages when grown at low light intensities.
- Association Chlorophyll is destroyed in albino sunflower strains under bright illumination.
- Association Once bleached, albino sunflower strains appear to lose the capacity for chlorophyll formation.
- Observation No traces of carotene were found in the yellow sunflower mutant.
- Observation Neither carotene nor xanthophyll has been detected in the white sunflower mutant.
- Observation Flower color of the yellow sunflower mutant is normal.
- Observation The flowers of the white sunflower mutant have no apparent pigmentation.
- Observation The growth pattern of grafted yellow sunflower mutants is normal.
- Observation Grafted yellow sunflower mutants have a stiffer and woodier condition.
- Observation Grafted yellow sunflower mutants have a greater resistance to wilting.
- Observation Grafted white sunflower mutants show the same stiffer, woodier and wilt-resistant characteristics.
- Observation The white sunflower mutant has a pronounced reduction in leaf size.
- Observation Both sunflower mutants set viable seeds after grafting onto green host plants.