A novel low alkaloid gene
FISHER A.M.(1); PATRA B.(1); WU X.(2); SINGH S.(1); FISHER C.R.(2); JI H.(1)
(1) University of Kentucky, Kentucky Tobacco Research & Development Centre, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.; (2) University of Kentucky, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, KTRDC, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
With possible future regulation of nicotine levels, scientists are searching for ways to lower nicotine in ways acceptable to the tobacco industry. The conventionally bred nic1nic2 low alkaloid (LA) mutants lower nicotine to only about 10 % of...