Dear Colleague:
A photocopy of the paper you requested is in the mail. Because I do
not know the answer to your question about pairs of spikelets and row
irregularity, I am forwarding your email to the maize net for others
to consider and respond.
Ed Coe
Dear Prof. Coe,
Could you please send me a copy of your article 'Clonal analysis of
corn plant development. I. The development of the tassel and the ear
shoot' published in Dev Biol. 1983 May; 97(1):154-72. I hope your
article will help me to answer some questions arisen under
determination of the timing of the rbg reversion from the o2 allele.
(The data on ear morphology available at the MNL web site (IMP) was
very useful for me.) During this analysis I determined the
appurtenance of revertant kernels to a particular spikelet by marking
attachment places of revertant kernels and subsequently cutting off
spikelet ear tissue remnants. Such a quite simple determination
appeared to be more difficult on the ears with 'irregular' rows. One
of the arising questions is whether the additional spikelets (which
provoke row irregularity) always develop as a PAIR of spikelet or
not. Do you have any information on this issue?
Thank you in advance. Sincerely yours,
Vladimir V. Koterniak
Senior Research Scientist
Maize and Sorghum Research Institute, Pascani, reg. Criuleni 4834,
Republic of Moldova
E-mail: koterniak at hotmail.com
