Table 1.

Mutation rates of wheat, corn and chickpea as estimated from mutation accumulation experiments. All mutation rates are haploid (per allele) with a 95% C.I. on the estimate given in parentheses

Species	Number of loci	Type of repeat	Number of observed mutations	Average mutation rate	Reference
Wheat	10	di-nt	12	2.4 ×10–4 (1.4 ×10–4, 4.2 ×10–4)	Thuillet et al. 2002
Corn	88	di-nt	73	7.7 ×10–4 (5.2 ×10–4, 1.1 ×10–3)	Vigouroux et al. 2002
Corn	42	>2 (compound)	0	0.0 (0.0, 5.1 ×10–5)	Vigouroux et al. 2002
Chickpea Ghab2 var.	15	tri-nt	167	5.0 ×10–3 (4.5 ×10–3, 6.0 ×10–3)	Udupa and Baum 2001
Chickpea Syrian local var.	15	tri-nt	60	1.95 ×10–3 (1.45 ×10–3, 2.5 ×10–3)	Udupa and Baum 2001