CC-3710 NL105 mt+

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From Kazuo Nakamura, University of Lethbridge, by way of Takeshi Egashira, Kyushu Dental College, Japan, March 1999

Phenotype: chlorophyll b deficient

This mutant was isolated as methionine sensitive by Nakamura et al. (see CC-2913 NL-11 mt+ ), and later determined to be chlorophyll b deficient. Doi et al. reported that this mutant excretes red pigments identified as breakdown products of chlorophyll a.


Doi M, Shima S, Egashira T, Nakamura K, Okayama S (1997) New bile pigment excreted by a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutant: A possible breakdown catabolite of chlorophyll a. J Plant Physiol 150:504-508