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Barley grains are embedded in a block of plastic clay with the Carlsberg Seed Fixation System, abraded to expose a small sector of endosperm and surrounding testa. Staining of the proanthocyanidins in the testa is carried out by immersion into a solution of vanillin in 4.5 N−HCl. Kernels lacking proanthocyanidins are selected, washed and grown to mature plants. Using sodium azide mutagenesis 10 proanthocyanidin-free mutants with anthocyanin pigmentation in the vegetative parts of the plants were obtained among 78,450 M3-kernels amounting to a frequency of 0.013%.
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Kristensen, H., Aastrup, S. A non-destructive screening method for proanthocyanidin-free barley mutants. Carlsberg Res. Commun. 51, 509–513 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02906893
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