Claim · model-written summary
Mutation of the COMATOSE locus in Arabidopsis reduces germination potential.
- Taxon
- Arabidopsis
Arabidopsise1 - Gene
- COMATOSE locuse1
- Outcome
- germination potentiale1
- Direction
- reductione1
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Verbatim
e1“Mutation of the COMATOSE locus in Arabidopsis results in a marked reduction in germination potential”
Title
TheArabidopsis COMATOSElocus regulates germination potential
Laurel Russell; Victoria Larner; Smita Kurup; et al. Development 2000. doi:10.1242/dev.127.17.3759
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Mature cts seeds do not respond to gibberellin.
- Intervention effect Prolonged chilling of imbibed seeds only partially restores germination potential.
- Observation Mature cts seeds do not after-ripen.
- Observation The cts phenotype is expressed in the embryo.
- Observation No phenotypic differences between wild-type and mutant plants were observed during other stages of growth and development.
- Mechanism The cts mutant phenotype requires the wild-type action of the loci regulating embryo maturation and abscisic acid, suggesting that CTS represses these loci.
- Mechanism A model postulates that CTS promotes germination potential and represses embryo dormancy.