Three new yellow loci in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Three phenotypically 'yellow', mendelian mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have been isolated and tested for allelism with the yellow mutant y-1 a1 and with each other. The three mutants represent three new yellow loci, two of which are located on linkage group I. Like y-1a, the mutants accumulate protochlorophyllide when grown under dim light, but have a wildtype phenotype when grown in the light. We conclude that the control of light-independent protochlorophyllide reduction is more complex than has been thought previously.
D000483:Alleles; D002696:Chlamydomonas / Q000235:genetics*; D002734:Chlorophyll / Q000096:biosynthesis; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D008027:Light; D009154:Mutation; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D011521:Protochlorophyllide / Q000378:metabolism
D002734:Chlorophyll; D011521:Protochlorophyllide