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The continuation of the work with the purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, previously reported1–4, has confirmed the tetrasomic inheritance of the factor for mid-style. Lacour's determination of the somatic chromosome number as sixty suggests, therefore, the existence of fifteen quadruplets of homologous chromosomes. Since the short style is epistatic to mid, it is possible by legitimate crosses between short- and mid-styled plants to build up genetic constitutions up to four genes for the mid-style; all these appear to be phenotypically alike, or, in other words, the mid-style gene appears to be completely dominant.
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FISHER, R., MARTIN, V. Spontaneous Occurrence in Lythrum salicaria of Plants Duplex for the Short-style Gene. Nature 160, 541 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160541a0
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