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This paper reports that the opaque-6 (o6) mutation of maize, which causes seedling lethality and interferes in the endosperm with the synthesis of zeins and b-32 protein, is a proline requiring mutant functionally allelic to proline-1 (pro-1). Furthermore, immunological studies on the b-32 content of ten independently originated o6 and pro-1 alleles demonstrated that four alleles contain an apparently normal b-32 protein while the others are either devoid of it or contain trace amounts of cross-reacting proteins of lower molecular weight.
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Manzocchi, L., Tonelli, C., Gavazzi, G. et al. Genetic relationship between o6 and pro-1 mutants in maize. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 72, 778–781 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266544
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