Designation of four recessive mutants

--M. G. Neuffer

sr4 (stp*-65A): Location 6L (confirmed by J.B. Beckett). Phenotype: Comes up pale luteus and changes to striped; mature plant is like sr1.

wlu5 (wl*-266A): Location 1L (confirmed by P. Sisco); not allelic to lw (Sisco); linkage: 26 - bz2; also near br1? but not gs1, not allelic to w18 (w*-495A or w18-571C) (see Sisco, MNL 61:114).

w18 (w*-495A; allelic to w*-571C): Location 1L (confirmed by P. Sisco); not allelic to lw (Sisco), see notes on wlu5 (above).

gl22 (gl*-478C): Location is not known; second member of a duplicate gene system with gl21 (Sprague, personal communication).

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