Mendel, 150 years on

作者：Ellis T H Noel; Hofer Julie M I; Timmerman Vaughan Gail M; Coyne Clarice J; Hellens Roger P^*

来源：Trends in Plant Science, 2011, 16(11): 590-596.

DOI：10.1016/j.tplants.2011.06.006

Mendel's paper 'Versuche uber Pflanzen-Hybriden' is the best known in a series of studies published in the late 18th and 19th centuries that built our understanding of the mechanism of inheritance. Mendel investigated the segregation of seven gene characters of pea (Pisum sativum), of which four have been identified. Here, we review what is known about the molecular nature of these genes, which encode enzymes (R and Le), a biochemical regulator (I) and a transcription factor (A). The mutations are: a transposon insertion (r), an amino acid insertion (i), a splice variant (a) and a missense mutation (le-1). The nature of the three remaining uncharacterized characters (green versus yellow pods, inflated versus constricted pods, and axial versus terminal flowers) is discussed.

• 出版日期2011-11