EMS-induced streptomycin resistance inSolanum melongena

✍ Scribed by A. V. Rao; A. Farooqui; T. Jaya Sree; R. V. Ramana; A. Sadanandam

• Book ID: 104668100
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 759 KB
• Volume: 87
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-5752
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00215099

✦ Synopsis

Streptomycin-resistant mutations were induced in Solanum melongena by exposing seeds to ethyl methane sulphonate (EMS). Seed mutagenesis resulted in a high frequency of chlorophyll-deficient mutations and a low frequency of resistant shoots, both of which retained their resistance on subsequent testing. Reciprocal crosses between streptomycin-resistant and -sensitive plants showed a non-Mendelian transmission of the resistance trait. Streptomycin resistance is the first selectable and maternally inherited organelle marker described in brinjal.