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From: MALMBERG@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (Russell Malmberg)
Newsgroups: bionet.genome.arabidopsis
Subject: mapping reporter allele transformants
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Date: 15 May 91 11:38:13 GMT
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Here's an idea I have been thinking about.
A supply of kanamycin resistant transformants with constitutive reporter
alleles could be very useful for chromosome mechanics.  What would be
needed is for everyone to routinely map their 35S-GUS transformants
(usually the controls for other experiments).  If we had a supply of
mapped strains (i.e. every arm marked) these might be useful for
many genetic studies.  My suggestion is that everyone routinely map
theircontrol transformants, that appear to reside at a single locus.
One of the stock centers being established could then distribute
the collection to interested chromosome manipulaters.

Russell Malmberg