The Pervenets High Oleic Mutation: Methodological Studies

Abstract

The Pervenets mutation raises the oleic acid content (OAC) from about 25% (LO linoleic sunflower) to over 75% (HO sunflower) in sunflower seed oil whatever the genetic backgrounds of the genotypes: fixed mutant lines, hybrid between fixed mutant lines and, surprisingly, both direction cross hybrids between high oleic × linoleic and linoleic × high oleic lines. Here we develop the methodology to point out the coincidence between the mutation and the oleate-desaturase locus. The mutation function is modeled to explain the phenotype. © 2004, by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston. All rights reserved.