A Thiamine-Requiring Mutant of The Tomato
Open Access
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by CSIRO Publishing in Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
- Vol. 14 (1), 66-69
- https://doi.org/10.1071/bi9610066
Abstract
A spontaneous, single-gene mutant of the tomato is shown to be unable to synthesize thiamine. The specific reaction lost is either the methylation of position 2 or the activation of position 5 of the pyrimidine ring.Keywords
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