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Published in Crop Sci 14:374-376 (1974)
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Effect of Multiple Aleurone Layers on the Protein and Amino Acid Content of Maize Endosperm1

Oliver E. Nelson and Ming Tu Chang2

The data from four F2 progenies from a cross of a normal endosperm, multiple aleurone maize (Zea mays L.) line with an o2/o2 single aleurone line were heterogeneous but do not disprove the hypothesis that the multiple aleurone phenotype is conditioned by a single dominant factor. This factor segregated independently of opaque-2. In non-opaque seeds, the effect of multiple aleurone layers on protein content of the endosperm or content of any amino acid was negligible. In o2/o2/o2 endosperms, the presence of multiple aleurone layers as compared to single aleurone layers increased slightly the content of all the amino acids that are increased in o2/o2/o2 endosperms as compared with O2/—/— endosperms. Most of the amino acids that were lower in o2/o2/o2 endosperms relative to O2/—/— endosperms were decreased further by the presence of multiple aleurone layers. We conclude that the multiple aleurone layer factor should be useful in breeding programs designed to utilize the opaque-2 mutant.

Key Words: Lysine • Opaque-2

1 Laboratory of Genetics Paper No. 1669. Research supported by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and by the National Institutes of Health, Grant No. 15422.

2 Professor of Genetics and Project Specialist, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.

Received for publication June 16, 1973.


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