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. 2016 Mar 3;171(1):192–205. doi: 10.1104/pp.15.01301

Table II. Frequency of wild-type, heterozygous, and homozygous alleles found for the Arabidopsis T-DNA allele pgd2-1 in the qrt1-2 background.

CS8846, point mutation in QRT1 (Preuss et al., 1994; Copenhaver et al., 1998) encoding a pectin methylesterase (Francis et al., 2006).

SALK_036751 × CS8846 (Back)cross No. PGD2 PGD2 PGD2 pgd2-1 pgd2-1 pgd2-1
PGD2 pgd2-1 × ♂ PGD2 PGD2 (qrt1-2) F1 63 46% 54%a
PGD2 pgd2-1(qrt1-2) × ♂ PGD2 pgd2-1(qrt1-2) F2 100 51% 49%b 0%
a

Mean of heterozygous plants after selfing (both pgd2 alleles and pgd2-1 in qrt2-1; Table I) = 48.6%.  bMean of heterozygous plants after female backcrosses (including qrt2-1; Table I) = 46.7%.