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. 1977 Jul;50(4):173-7.
doi: 10.1007/BF00277738.

Genotypic effects on the amino acid relationships in maize (Zea mays L.) pollen and style

H F Linskens  1 , P L Pfahler
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Genotypic effects on the amino acid relationships in maize (Zea mays L.) pollen and style

H F Linskens et al. Theor Appl Genet. 1977 Jul.

Abstract

The free amino acid content of the pollen grains and the style from three single cross hybrids (Wf9 x H55, Ky49 x Ky27, K64 x K55) and two inbred lines (Oh43, H55) was determined. No tyrosine was detected in the pollen grains of any genotype. Significant differences between pollen genotypes were found for aspartic acid, threonine, serine, lysine and histidine with no effect resulting from the vigor of the pollen source. No proline was found in the style of any genotype. Significant differences between style genotypes were obtained for threonine, serine, glutamic acid, leucine, tyrosine, ethanolanine, α aminobutyric acid and histidine with a relationship between vigor of the style genotype present for tyrosine, ethanolanine and α aminobutyric acid. The relationship between the pollen and style level for each amino acid as influenced by genotype was analyzed. A significant negative correlation was found only for threonine. Apparently, a complementary relationship between the pollen and style exists for some amino acids. Proline and tyrosine are available only from the pollen and style respectively. Threonine levels are balanced with varying contributions from both pollen and style depending on the genotype.

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