Hi Nancy,
Do you know about the Oregon Wolfe Barleys?
http://www.css.orst.edu/barley/WOLFEBAR/WOLFNEW.HTM
- Dave
> To: maize at net.bio.net> From: nlp at noctrl.edu ("Nancy Peterson")
> Subject: Corn Genetics Question
> Date: 17 Aug 2000 19:29:17 +0100
>> I am trying to develop a non-majors general biology lab exercise that
> connects Mendalian genetics to an actual gene. My hope would be to
> use corn seed color. Carolina Biological sells corn cobs that
> students could count & see that the 3:1 ratio holds. I'd like to then
> have them plant the seeds, grow the plants and do PCR to show that
> the purple seeds which show one phenotype can have different
> genotypes whereas the yellow are all the same genotype. I have found
> the nucleotide sequence for the wildtype R1 gene but I don't know
> which r1 allele Carolina sells. Does anybody out there know which
> allele it is? Does anybody know of tested primers for the R1 & r1
> genes? I would sure appreciate any help you could give me.
>> Thanks,
>> Nancy Peterson
> Dept. of Chemistry
> North Central College
> Naperville IL 60566
