Identification of new chlorophyll-deficient mutants will provide materials for studying signaling components and pathways between plastid and nucleus. A novel chlorophyll-deficient mutant, named Mt6172, was obtained by spaceflight environment induction. Genetic analysis showed that its inheritance was controlled by nuclear and cytoplamic genes. Leaf color of its self-fertilized progenies was albino, narrow-white striped, or green. Only a few cells with abnormal chloroplasts were observed in albino plants and white section of narrow-white striped plants. These chloroplasts had obvious flaws in inner structure, and granum lamellae was extremely disordered. The narrow-white striped plants were characterized with green- and-narrow-white striped leaves, and the width of stripes between different plants was even, their plant height, number of productive tillers, and 1 000-grain weight were lower than those of the wild type. The narrow-white striped plants and the wild type had significant difference in the value of potential activity of photosystem II at all tested stages. At elongation stage, which was impacted the most seriously, effective quantum yield significantly decreased, whereas the energy for photoprotection and photodamage significantly increased. changes of electron transport rate, photochemical dissipation, Under different photosynthetic active radiation conditions, and effective quantum yield were different, electron transport rate was more impacted than other parameters. Therefore, the leaf morphology and inheritance of mutant Mt6172 was different from the other reported mutants in wheat, and it was a novel mutant of chloroDhvll deficiency.
TILLING技术(Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes)经过十多年的快速发展,已经应用到多种植物点突变高通量筛选与基因功能研究中,检测方法也逐渐趋于多样化,直接测序、毛细管电泳、高分辨熔解曲线等检测方法均得到了较多的应用。与此同时EcoTILLING、DeTILLING及iTILLING等相关技术的发展扩大了TILLING技术的应用范围。本文着重介绍了目前TILLING分析中用到的不同检测方法及相关生物信息学工具,详细评述了TILLING技术在模式植物、主要粮食作物、油料作物、蔬菜等其它作物中的应用与研究进展。
