Genetic damage to a fern population growing in a polluted environment: segregation and description of gametophyte mutants
作者:
Edward J. Klekowski Jr.,
Edward L. Davis,
期刊:
Canadian Journal of Botany
(NRC Available online 1977)
卷期:
Volume 55,
issue 5
页码: 542-548
ISSN:0008-4026
年代: 1977
DOI:10.1139/b77-064
出版商: NRC Research Press
数据来源: NRC
摘要:
A population of the fernOsmunda regalisgrowing in a polluted river was investigated genetically. Previous studies documented a high frequency of postzygotically induced genetic and chromosome damage. This paper describes two categories of gametophytic mutants which occurred in the progeny of this population. A gametophyte phenotype which exhibited a maternal effect on the sporophyte generation when it was the female parent occurred in 7.8% of the spore sample. A gametophyte phenotype which could best be characterized as a neuter calluslike mass occurred in 6.6% of the spore sample. Studies of nearbyO. regalispopulations in non-polluted sites failed to document the presence of such phenotypes in the spore samples.
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