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. 2001 Nov;127(3):998–1011.

Table I.

Results of reciprocal backcrosses to wild-type plants and segregation analysis

Mutant F1 Seed Phenotypeab
F2 Seed Phenotype
F3 Seed
× WTc WT × × WT WT × WT:mutant Chi squared
mum1-1 muc + + + 188:50 2.0224, P > 0.1
mum2-1 muc + + + 98:33 0.0025, P > 0.5
mum3-1 red.muc. + + + 57:20 0.0390, P > 0.5
mum4-1 muc + + + 147:37 2.3480, P > 0.1
mum5-1 red.muc. + + + 142:41 0.6576, P > 0.1
a

 F1 seed, Seed from cross; F2 seed, seed of F1 plants; F3 seed, seed of F2 plants. 

b

 Ruthenium red staining result; +, mucilage; muc, no mucilage; red.muc., reduced mucilage. 

c

 All crosses written female parent × male parent; WT, wild type. 

d

 Null hypothesis of 3:1 WT:mutant; degrees of freedom = 1; cutoff at P = 0.05. 

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