Characterization of glycerol nonutilizing and protoperithecial mutants ofNeurospora
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Molecular Genetics and Genomics
- Vol. 153 (1), 29-38
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01035993
Abstract
Mutants defective in polyol metabolism and/or in protoperithecial development were selected inNeurospora tetrasperma, a species in which protoperithecial development occurs at nonpermissively high temperature if certain polyols are used in lieu of sucrose as carbon source. Mutants selected for nonutilization of one of the four polyols tested, glycerol, mannitol, sorbitol, or xylitol, were usually found to be nonutilizers of the other three polyols as well. Mutants blocked at various stages of protoperithecial development complemented pairwise to produce more advanced developmental stages, usually mature protoperithecia and, when of opposite mating type, mature perithecia. About one-third of the mutants manifested both polyol auxotrophy and defective protoperithecial development upon initial isolation, but protoperithecial defectiveness in such mutants usually showed erratic segregation in crosses and/or instability to repeated vegetative transfer, whereas polyol auxotrophy usually did not and was, therefore, studied further. Two glycerol nonutilizing strains were introgressed intoN. crassa to facilitate genetic analysis. One,glp-4, lacked both inducible and constitutive glycerol kinase and mapped to linkage group VI, betweenad-1 andrib-1; the other,glp-5, lacked glyceraldehyde kinase and mapped to linkage group I, proximal toad-9. Another mutant,gly-u(234), has been reported by other investigators to lack inducible glycerol kinase but to map to linkage group I, distal toad-9.Keywords
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