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The sorghum brown midrib (bmr) mutants, generated via chemical mutagenesis with di-ethyl sulfate (DES), are similar to the bm mutants of maize in that they have brown vascular tissue in the leaves and stem.
We concur with recent proposals that the major role of PEPCK in green tissues is decarboxylation of OAA during C4 photosynthesis in maize.
These repeats are often part of the trans-silencer locus or paramutagenic locus or its target [ 10 14 15 16 17 ] . However, the repeat can sometimes be located at a considerable distance from the affected locus itself, as has recently been shown for the single-copy maize b1 gene [ 18 ] . Other than transcriptional gene silencing, paramutation is only weakly correlated with DNA methylation.
The present study also confirms the role that the maize brown midrib genes play in flowering dynamics.
In maize 50-80%, and in wheat fully 90%, of the genome is made up of retrotransposons [ 1, 2].