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. 1995 Jun;108(2):495-502.
doi: 10.1104/pp.108.2.495.

Phenotypic Suppression of the Gibberellin-Insensitive Mutant (gai) of Arabidopsis

R. N. Wilson  1 , C. R. Somerville
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Phenotypic Suppression of the Gibberellin-Insensitive Mutant (gai) of Arabidopsis

R. N. Wilson et al. Plant Physiol. 1995 Jun.

Abstract

The semidominant gibberellin-insensitive (gai) mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana shows impairment in multiple responses to the plant hormone gibberellin A3, which include effects on seed germination, stem elongation, apical dominance, and rapid flowering in short days. Results presented here show that the gai mutation also interferes with development of fertile flowers in continuous light. Mu-tagenesis of the gai mutant resulted in recovery of 17 independent mutants in which the gibberellin-insensitive phenotype is partially or completely suppressed. Sixteen of the suppressor mutations act semidominantly to restore gibberellin responsiveness. One representative of this class, the gar1 mutation, could not be genetically separated from the gai locus and is proposed to cause inactivation of the gai gene. The exceptional gar2 mutation partially suppresses the gai phenotype, is completely dominant, and is not linked to the gai locus. The gar2 mutation may define a new gene involved in gibberellin signaling. A recessive allele of the spindly (SPY) locus, spy-5, was also found to partially suppress the gai mutant phenotype.

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